The Ribbon Graphical User Interface Will Define the Windows 7 UX
	The Ribbon graphical user interface will define the user experience of the next iteration of Windows, giving the operating system a new visual style trajectory compared to its predecessors, including Windows Vista. The Ribbon or Fluent GUI was born together with t ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 12:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

5,000 Years Old Jade Earrings Betray Long-Route Seafaring
	Jade has been valued in Asia even from ancient times and now it comes with a new story: jade jewelry coming from ancient burial sites across Southeast Asia reveal one of the largest ancient marine trading routes, as revealed by a new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Geological analysis revealed that the majority of 144 sampled artifacts, some 5000 years old, were coming from Taiwan, the island ... [read more >>]
	21 November 2007, 03:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The World's Largest Diamond Ever Found!
	Diamonds may be a woman's dream but this one would break her neck if put on a necklace: it has the size of two fists, 7,000 carats and doubles what was till now the world's largest known diamond, the Cullinan or "Great Star of Africa", found in South Africa in 1905. The new one has been found by a small mining company also in South Africa in an unknown location, but check is still required. Security is tightened arou ... [read more >>]
	31 August 2007, 13:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Treasures and a 1,300 Years Old Skeleton Inside a Pre-Inca Pyramid
	Tiwanaku were the most important precursors of the mighty Inca Empire. But as they left no written records, many details about their culture remain unknown. Today only three Tiwanaku buildings still stand: the Akapana fortress-pyramid, the temple Kalasaya and the Palace of the Ten Doors. Now, archaeologists have discovered the 1,300-year-old skeleton of a high hierarchy character, ruler or priest, of this ancient civiliz ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2007, 04:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Ship of Blackbeard to Be Excavated
	10 years ago, researchers discovered a shipwreck just off the Atlantic Beach, in North Carolina and it was supposed to have belonged to the famous pirate Blackbeard. Now, archaeologists have announced that in three years, the shipwreck will be fully excavated. "That's really our target," says Steve Claggett, the state archaeologist. The ship sank in 1718, and scientists guess this was a French slave ship ca ... [read more >>]
	03 March 2007, 05:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia