 1. India was one of the cradles of the civilization. Here emerged two religions ... [read >>]
Date: 12 February 2008, 16:31 GMT
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 The Great Sphinx of Giza is the largest monolith statue in the world. It is 73.5... [read >>]
Date: 12 February 2008, 14:06 GMT
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 Besides birds and bats, the only true flying vertebrates ever were a group of re... [read >>]
Date: 12 February 2008, 02:46 GMT
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 1. Starting with the 1st century AD, the pressure of the Germanic tribes on the ... [read >>]
Date: 11 February 2008, 14:06 GMT
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 Among the three great civilizations in America before its discovery by Columbus ... [read >>]
Date: 11 February 2008, 04:48 GMT
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 1. Four millennia ago, the mix between one of the first waves of Indo-Europeans ... [read >>]
Date: 09 February 2008, 02:26 GMT
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 On the left bank of the Euphrates River, 100 km (60 mi) of Aleppo (Syria), in th... [read >>]
Date: 08 February 2008, 09:15 GMT
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 The largest ever land animals were the enormous plant-eater dinosaurs called sau... [read >>]
Date: 08 February 2008, 03:30 GMT
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 Today, the word "Iberian" makes you think about Spain and Portugal, bu... [read >>]
Date: 07 February 2008, 15:11 GMT
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 Anthropologists are still debating what gave Homo sapiens a step ahead over the ... [read >>]
Date: 07 February 2008, 06:25 GMT
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 Shoes have become a cultural item and what you wear tells a lot about you. They ... [read >>]
Date: 07 February 2008, 05:28 GMT
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 Crayfish are found an all continents and adapted to diverse freshwater environme... [read >>]
Date: 07 February 2008, 04:56 GMT
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 1. The romans were the creators of the first large western empire, perfectly org... [read >>]
Date: 06 February 2008, 15:17 GMT
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 1. Ancient Greek culture founded the western culture, with its modern traits of ... [read >>]
Date: 05 February 2008, 14:11 GMT
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 The Etruscan civilization flourished on the territory of central Italy (from Po ... [read >>]
Date: 04 February 2008, 17:16 GMT
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 We abhor them and only their sight can make us sick. But they represent one of t... [read >>]
Date: 04 February 2008, 03:48 GMT
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 1. The Israelite shepherd tribes wandered for centuries through the steppes and ... [read >>]
Date: 01 February 2008, 18:06 GMT
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 Crocodiles are the living relatives of the only surviving Archosauria group of r... [read >>]
Date: 01 February 2008, 03:19 GMT
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 The Hittites were mentioned even in the Bible. Their roots started with the Indo... [read >>]
Date: 31 January 2008, 14:46 GMT
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 The word "totem" comes from the Ojibwa, an Algonquin language from the... [read >>]
Date: 31 January 2008, 07:27 GMT
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 In the heaven of the tomb raiders, an American-Russian team has managed to find ... [read >>]
Date: 31 January 2008, 02:55 GMT
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 1. The fertile banks of the Nile River offered several annual crops, as many flo... [read >>]
Date: 30 January 2008, 15:58 GMT
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 Nubia is the name of a region historically located in southern Egypt and norther... [read >>]
Date: 29 January 2008, 08:37 GMT
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 These weird creatures are called horseshoe crabs, but they have nothing to do wi... [read >>]
Date: 29 January 2008, 03:41 GMT
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 In the last period of the Roman occupation, Britain was often raided by the Pict... [read >>]
Date: 26 January 2008, 03:31 GMT
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 When the first platypus furs were brought to Europe, people thought that duck bi... [read >>]
Date: 24 January 2008, 02:58 GMT
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 There were three great civilizations in America before its discovery by the Euro... [read >>]
Date: 23 January 2008, 02:53 GMT
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 Its closest relative were the koala and the wombats. But it was not a leaf lover... [read >>]
Date: 18 January 2008, 03:32 GMT
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 The lost city of Paititi fueled the imagination of many adventurers and explore... [read >>]
Date: 17 January 2008, 03:27 GMT
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 This is more than bones and fossilized feces: the fossilized skin of this dinosa... [read >>]
Date: 17 January 2008, 02:49 GMT
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 That piece of canvas has been causing a lot of morbid curiosity. Since ever, art... [read >>]
Date: 16 January 2008, 06:27 GMT
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