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After more than three decades since it was sealed up, archaeologists are now again visiting the cave system located under the Pyramid of the Sun, in an attempt to learn more about the civilization that built it. The Pyramid of the Sun is the third largest pyramid in the world, standing behind the Great Pyramid of Cho... |
4 July 2008
09:56 GMT |
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Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution is the first game in the series developed exclusively for consoles and will be available in shops worldwide on June 6, 2008. It has been developed by Firaxis and, just like the other titles, it will be a turn based strategy game. Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution is a w... |
3 June 2008
09:54 GMT |
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Oasys Mobile announced the availability of Sid Meier's Civilization IV: War of Two Cities for mobile phones, a new strategy game based on the legendary Civilization franchise created back in 1991 by Syd Meier and currently owned by 2K Games. The announcement comes after almost one year since Oasys got the li... |
15 May 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Back in January, construction workers stumbled in the Usme district (southeast of Bogotá, Colombia) upon an ancient burial site made of about one thousand tombs belonging to two mysterious civilizations. The site spans over an area of 12 acres (5 hectares) and could host victims of human sacrifice."The possible victi... |
13 May 2008
02:45 GMT |
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Water appeared on Earth 3.5 billion years ago and it is perhaps the most valuable resource of the planet. H2O means life to anything, from bacterium to elephants and humans. There is no biochemical or physiological reaction in the absence of the water. We must consume on average 2.5 liters of water from food and beve... |
21 April 2008
08:56 GMT |
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To most of the older hard-core gamers Ken Levine is one of the gods of gaming. And his most interesting work is not the fictional, dystopian and Objectivism infused underwater world of Bioshock, but the long running spell at now defunct Looking Glass game studio, where he was a central part of the team that created s... |
8 April 2008
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For humans, writing meant a huge technological and cultural revolution. Information was at last to be recorded in a more secure way than via human memory. Writing and reading seem natural for us, but they had to be invented and perfected. In 1996, on the left bank of the Euphrates River, 100 km (60 mi) of Aleppo (Syr... |
5 April 2008
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The Neolithic (New Stone Age) was a period in the technological development of Homo sapiens that started at the end of the Ice Age, 10,000 years ago, and ended around the Mediterranean Sea and other areas about 5,500 years ago, when the Bronze Age started.It was the period when first human settlements appeared. Peopl... |
25 March 2008
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Silk, the highly sought-for item in the ancient Rome, was brought from China by caravans that had to cross thousands of kilometers of deserts, rough terrain and abrupt mountains. To all these, the frequent attacks of the bandits added, in the wild passes of the mountains, on the road whose end was on the eastern shor... |
25 March 2008
09:46 GMT |
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Paleolithic is the period that makes most of our history. It started with the oldest known stone tools, 2.6 Ma ago and lasted until 10,000 years ago. It emerged with Homo habilis and reached its peak with our species, Homo sapiens, which appeared about 200,000 years ago. It is the period when humans were just hunters... |
24 March 2008
17:11 GMT |
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The Krakatoa eruption may have been just a child play compared to the volcanic megablast that spread havoc in the human civilization around 536 AD. Its volcanic cloud could have triggered a global chill that caused famine in half of the world's population. An international research published in the journal "Geo... |
24 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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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
09:16 GMT |
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1. In northern Japan, on the island of Hokkaido and a part of the Russian Sakhalin Island, lives a mysterious ethnic group, called Ainu, whose origins represents a mystery. They are very distinct from the Japanese people and, before the Tungus invasion coming from mainland Asia (Korea and northern China), the whole a... |
21 February 2008
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The history of Peru involves more than the Inca civilization. Pyramid remains have been found at Piura (on the northern Peruvian coast), by construction crews, in January. Now, a team from the Peruvian National Institute of Culture (INC) has announced that the site, 2 mi (3.2 km) long and 1 mi (1.6 km) wide, belonge... |
21 February 2008
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2K Games has announced that the console exclusive title, developed by Firaxis and available for the Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and PlayStation 3, will be released on June 3, 2008. For the first time ever, the franchise moves away from the PC, after the success of Civilization 4 and its two expansions, Warlords and Beyond ... |
21 February 2008
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In 1527, starting from Panama, a handful of Spaniards led by Francisco Pizarro managed to conquer the largest empire a pre-Columbian civilization ever created. The empire of Incas stretched through the highlands of Andes, in today's Ecuador, Peru, south Columbia, western Bolivia and northwest Argentina and it nu... |
16 February 2008
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1. The Han Chinese form the largest ethnic group in the world, 14 % of the planet's population. The cradle of the Chinese civilization was the valley of Huang He (Yellow River). The capital of three great Chinese dynasties: Chu (1,122-256 BC), Han (206 BC-220 AD) and Tang (618-906), was located in the city of Ji... |
13 February 2008
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1. India was one of the cradles of the civilization. Here emerged two religions of high philosophical and moral content: Buddhism and Brahmanism. Indian literature started over 3,000 years ago with the sacred books called Vedas and the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata; it was profoundly religious and poetic, and com... |
12 February 2008
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1. Four millennia ago, the mix between one of the first waves of Indo-Europeans and pre-Indo-Europeans populations gave rise to the Celts, in the (nowadays) southern Germany, between the river Rhine and Danube. The Celts developed a skilled iron metallurgy and this allowed them to produce powerful weaponry. During th... |
9 February 2008
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On the left bank of the Euphrates River, 100 km (60 mi) of Aleppo (Syria), in the archaeological site of Jerf el-Ahmar (in Arabian "Red Bank"), a Syrian-French team discovered, in 1996, some very odd stone slates bearing engraved graphics. The plates were considered to date from the Neolithic (New Stone Age), being 9... |
8 February 2008
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Today, the word "Iberian" makes you think about Spain and Portugal, but the word comes from the name of an ancient population that inhabited the southern and eastern Iberian Peninsula in Antiquity. Historical sources starting with the 5th century BC describe the barbarian inhabitants of "Hispania", with odd habits an... |
7 February 2008
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The Etruscan civilization flourished on the territory of central Italy (from Po River to Naples) and, besides the Greek one, was the most influential for Romans. The Etruscans appeared, according to the historical annals, around 800-750 BC in Tuscany, the Italian region that was named after the Tuscans (Etruscans). L... |
4 February 2008
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The Hittites were mentioned even in the Bible. Their roots started with the Indo-European invasion in Anatolia (Asia Minor, now Turkey) 4,000 years ago. Around 1530 BC, the Hittites already made rapid invasions in the neighboring areas, and destroyed Babylon. By those times, Hittites were a warlike people involved in... |
31 January 2008
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The civilizations of Egypt and Middle East had already ages measured in millenia when the Iranian nomad tribes of the Medes and Persians left the steppes to establish in the Iranian Plateau, 3,000 years ago. The Medes settled in the south of the Caspian Sea, the Persians in the southeast, in the area of what we call ... |
19 January 2008
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First cities could develop only when people learned to build settlements and transform them in permanent habitats. This happened 10-12 millennia ago, in a stretch of land along the Middle East, going from Turkey to Iran. The natives of these places first lived as hunters-gatherers, but gradually they started living i... |
16 January 2008
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Any myth contains a grain of truth. This is also the case of Atlantis, the country swallowed by the sea. The myth of the Atlantis, first mentioned by Plato 2400 years ago, talks about a real ancient civilization destroyed by the sea. The Atlantic Ocean got its name from Atlantis, as many people placed its location in... |
15 January 2008
16:36 GMT |
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HeroCraft has just announced the forthcoming release of the long-awaited game Revival for PDA and Smartphones. Revival is a turn-based military strategy game in the tradition of the world-famous game title, "Civilization". The player will have to explore continents, direct battles on land and sea, build towns, develo... |
3 January 2008
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For the first Europeans navigating around Africa during the 15th century, these islands were vital. In those times, Africa was full of luxuries: gold, ivory, spices and slaves. These first explorers found on the middle of the east African shore a safe and deep port for their fragile boats. The port was protected by c... |
19 December 2007
09:31 GMT |
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They may have lived during the "New Stone Age" (Neolithic), but according to European figurines which are 7,500 years old, women liked to look sexy even back then. Recent digging at the site of a settlement of Vinca culture, Europe's biggest known Neolithic civilization, on Plocnik (southern Serbia), uncovered a... |
13 November 2007
06:12 GMT |
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The pre-Columbian America had two centers where complex civilizations developed: Mexico and Peru. At that time sophisticated cities and huge pyramidal temples were built. Now, a Peruvian team seems to have discovered the oldest mural ever found in the Americas, close to the Peruvian coast, at the Ventarrón site, in L... |
13 November 2007
02:54 GMT |
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"The enormous market swarmed of people; some buying, some selling...Amongst us were soldiers which had traveled in many parts of the world, from Constantinople to Italy and Rome, yet they said they had never seen a market of such proportions so harmonious and balanced, harboring so much people", wrote Bernal Diaz del... |
3 November 2007
05:33 GMT |
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Sid Meier's Civilization is a turn based strategy computer game created by Sid Meier for MicroProse in 1991. The game's objective is "...to build an empire that would stand the test of time". The game begins in 4000 BC and the players attempt to expand and develop their empires through the ages until moder... |
8 October 2007
09:17 GMT |
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On the second biggest island in the world, there lives one of the oldest human populations: the Papuans. Today, the island has about 6.9 million inhabitants. New Guinea has mountains up to 5,030 m high (16,700 ft) which display glaciers in an equatorial area, and the vegetation goes from coastal mangroves and marshes... |
18 August 2007
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We are obsessed with Egypt and Mesopotamia and all kinds of theories explaining how civilization emerged in these areas. But now archaeologists are coming with an increasingly more evidence that expands the view on the origin of civilization far beyond Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia is widely credited to be the cradle of c... |
3 August 2007
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Danube is like a vertebral column of the European continent and a navigable path connecting 9 countries over 2,850 km (1,800 mi), while gathering its affluents from an area of 817,000 square km. It is the 26th river in the world, and the second in Europe after Volga. It originates in the Black Forest Mountains in Ge... |
1 August 2007
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This civilization flourished on the territory which is nowadays central Italy (from Po River to Naples) and besides the Greek one, was the most influential for Romans. The Etruscans are still shrouded in mystery, even if there is a lot of data regarding their life, dances, or other habits, due to Roman writings and m... |
9 May 2007
19:11 GMT |
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Any myth bears a grain of truth and is not just about some stories invented by the human mind. This is also the case of Atlantis, the country swallowed by the sea. The myth of Atlantis, the city state engulfed by the sea waters, was first mentioned by Plato 2400 years ago and has been firing the popular imagination f... |
20 April 2007
06:18 GMT |
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With Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto", the most sinister aspect of the indigenous cultures of Mesomerica is revealed: their blood thirst and appetite for human sacrifices. What a simple DNA analysis revealed shows that the "Apocalypto" scenes are just backyard play. Ancient indigenous that built the Pyramid of the Moo... |
12 April 2007
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Rapa Nui or Easter Island, also called by the locals Tepitothenua (the navel of the world) is an almost barren triangular island of 170 square kilometers, believed to be the most isolated inhabited place on Earth, at 3,760 km (2,300 mi) off Chile, to which it belongs, at 27o 08' S and 109o 23' V. It is a vo... |
3 April 2007
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Archaeologists have discovered in the Pacific islands of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) the region's oldest cemetery, 3,000 year old, filled with a huge amount of headless bodies.The strange skeletons belong to the Lapita people, the earliest known sailors in the Pacific Islands. Their DNA could explain how many remote... |
16 March 2007
05:22 GMT |
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One of the possible winning conditions in Sid Meir's Civilization series is the launch of a shuttle to another galaxy (the closest - Proxima Centauri). This is just about where Stardock takes up and continues to spread the human influence across the Universe. Friend or foe, many alien races cross your way. In Ga... |
12 March 2007
11:23 GMT |
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Iron production was the most sophisticated form of metalworking for ancient civilizations. The complicated technology of the iron ore reduction has its roots in ancient Anatolia (today Turkey) in the Hittite and Mitanni kingdoms, 4,000 years ago. There is evidence that in northern India, it appeared 3,800 years ago. ... |
9 March 2007
10:41 GMT |
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The crockery was the first technological process through which people handled high temperatures and complicate chemical reactions of oxidation and reduction. 8,000 years ago, European populations were using malachite (a copper oxide) to get colorants. Perhaps ancient people noticed the transformations suffered by thi... |
8 March 2007
10:24 GMT |
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