Homosexuality was a frequent reality for the ancient Greeks and Romans, who left... [read >>]
Date: 30 August 2007, 06:32 GMT
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Even if Beethoven was deaf, he ‘listened’ to his doctor. But this proved even wo... [read >>]
Date: 30 August 2007, 06:11 GMT
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We do not know if dino lover boys used them to impress their girls, but dinosaur... [read >>]
Date: 30 August 2007, 04:25 GMT
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If a hungry T-rex chased you, you would stand no chance. The smallest dinosaurs ... [read >>]
Date: 22 August 2007, 05:29 GMT
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They may have been fearsome warriors ripping out the heart of the enemies in com... [read >>]
Date: 21 August 2007, 05:57 GMT
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The punks of the Stone Age were also chewing gum. They did it for sure 5,000-yea... [read >>]
Date: 21 August 2007, 03:05 GMT
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Finally, the British can calm down: 13,000 years ago they were artists, just lik... [read >>]
Date: 16 August 2007, 05:19 GMT
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If we take a look at modern-day Danish people, they do not seem to resemble thei... [read >>]
Date: 16 August 2007, 03:20 GMT
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Ancient Sumerian cuneiform slates from the Middle East testify that beer was pro... [read >>]
Date: 14 August 2007, 06:14 GMT
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They are still perhaps the most mysterious civilization of the ancient Europe. C... [read >>]
Date: 14 August 2007, 05:30 GMT
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We all have a good side. The problem is when the other side is horrible. Now, a ... [read >>]
Date: 14 August 2007, 05:00 GMT
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Once, Britain was a peninsula attached to Europe, but when the ice melted at the... [read >>]
Date: 10 August 2007, 06:38 GMT
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This was indeed one of the most interesting species in our evolution: a mix betw... [read >>]
Date: 10 August 2007, 03:21 GMT
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Columbus may have been proud to discover the New World in 1492, but we clearly k... [read >>]
Date: 09 August 2007, 14:06 GMT
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Megalomaniacs have lived among us ever since antiquity. And if Saddam, Mao and a... [read >>]
Date: 09 August 2007, 03:37 GMT
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We are more than an odd ape. We are odd as a species due to the fact that we are... [read >>]
Date: 09 August 2007, 03:00 GMT
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This could be one of the most important discoveries of all Aztec archaeology: gr... [read >>]
Date: 07 August 2007, 05:37 GMT
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Africa may have been the cradle of the human evolution, but it scarcely shared i... [read >>]
Date: 07 August 2007, 02:59 GMT
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As soon as they entered Europe, Homo sapiens interbred with the Neanderthals. At... [read >>]
Date: 06 August 2007, 06:47 GMT
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Some say life was brought to Earth by aliens. Beyond theories that seem depicted... [read >>]
Date: 06 August 2007, 06:09 GMT
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We are obsessed with Egypt and Mesopotamia and all kinds of theories explaining ... [read >>]
Date: 03 August 2007, 05:40 GMT
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This is somehow like the case of the frozen mammoths that still have meat on the... [read >>]
Date: 02 August 2007, 07:07 GMT
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Did you know the roots of words like "tomato", "chocolate", ... [read >>]
Date: 02 August 2007, 06:43 GMT
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Shark jaws are one the most terrible things invented by nature. But even if a Gr... [read >>]
Date: 02 August 2007, 05:23 GMT
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The "dinosaur" of all living fishes is the coelacanth from the Indian ... [read >>]
Date: 01 August 2007, 02:41 GMT
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These beasts made an elephant look like a mouse. Sauropod dinosaurs were big, bu... [read >>]
Date: 31 July 2007, 04:53 GMT
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The most famous mass extinction is perhaps that of the dinosaurs, 65 million yea... [read >>]
Date: 31 July 2007, 03:43 GMT
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Octopuses amaze us with their intelligence, body flexibility and complex behavio... [read >>]
Date: 30 July 2007, 06:09 GMT
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Today the giants of the Australian fauna are the red kangaroos: males can grow u... [read >>]
Date: 30 July 2007, 05:39 GMT
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During the Ice Age these islands could have formed a bridge from Asia to America... [read >>]
Date: 30 July 2007, 05:00 GMT
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We know that queen Hatshepsut wore false beard. But the ancient Egyptian technol... [read >>]
Date: 28 July 2007, 03:43 GMT
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