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1. The fertile banks of the Nile River offered several annual crops, as many floodings the river produced. The farmers would eagerly wait for the flooding, because after the water's retreat, the fields remained covered with a thick layer of mud on which the crops grew rapidly. This condition boosted the existenc... |
30 January 2008
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The Great Sphinx of Giza is the largest monolith statue in the world. It is 73.5 m (241 ft) long, 6 m (20 ft) wide, and 20 m (65 ft) high and represent the oldest known monumental sculpture. But its origins are still a subject of debate, as the statue seems to be much older than the Egyptian civilization. In the famo... |
12 February 2008
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The Olmecs preceded the Maya culture by about a millennium and represent the oldest complex civilization in the Americas. They were the first to invent a writing system, as revealed by stone (serpentine) blocks, the so-called Cascajal blocks, found in 2006 in Southern Veracruz, Mexico. Their civilization is regarded ... |
28 February 2008
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This river is the maker of the oldest civilization recorded by the historical sources: 5,000 years ago, the Egyptian state emerged on its banks. It is best known as the longest river on the planet. Nile is consensually considered so as it has 6,695 km in length, even if some say that Amazon is longer (6,800 km). The ... |
15 March 2008
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It seems simple: XX sex chromosomes make a female, XY sex chromosomes make a male. But sex is an evolutionary achievement which did not appear just like that. A new research published in the journal "PLoS" points to the great similarities between the DNA sequences that determine the sex of plants and animals and the ... |
18 March 2008
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Placed in the center of Greece, north of the Gulf of Corinth, the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi represented, for centuries, the most sought and famous oracle of the ancient world. The spiritual influence and the magic connotations the oracle caused in the mind of the people made the city located at the base of the Pa... |
18 March 2008
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In 1974, while digging for a well, the Chinese farmers from a village in the Shaanxi province discovered several terracotta statues. They were the first of thousands of statue-soldiers of an army buried in the tomb of the Chinese emperor Qin Shihuang, who died 2,200 years ago. The 8,099 soldiers, 300 horses and 200 c... |
19 March 2008
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If you've enjoyed "Troy", then you could be interested by the fact that archaeologists have discovered a possible place from where Troy's attackers set out. Daniel Pullen, an archaeologist at the Florida State University, first found the ruins in 2001 and recently presented his findings at the annual meetin... |
20 March 2008
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How much gold did the ancient Egyptian goldsmith process? The historian Hecateus of Miletus (4th century BC) said the extracted gold would raise to 32 million Greek mines (the 'mine' was the ancient Greek unit of mass; the amount in discussion represents about 10,000 tonnes!), a highly exaggerated number. T... |
20 March 2008
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