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A 2007 poll in which 100 million people participated included the Inca city of Machu Picchu amongst the world's new 7 wonders. Machu Picchu is shrouded in mystery, situated as it is on the top of the Andes at 4,000 m (13,300 ft) altitude. At the same time, it could have been an astronomic observatory and religio... |
24 April 2008
09:49 GMT |
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Ask both a man and a woman who have visited several countries about which one they would like to see again. You can be sure that men will choose the places where they saw more beautiful women. A web survey published by the site mmoabc.com intended to make a top of the cities with the most beautiful women, based on th... |
17 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The Orastiei Mountains (in the Carpathians) can be compared to a stone fortress surrounding with its walls the Hateg Depression in the county of Hunedoara (southern Transylvania, Romania). This region represented the center of the Dacian civilization, which reached its peak during the second stage of the Iron Epoch (... |
16 April 2008
08:42 GMT |
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The emergence of the human settlements during the Neolithic, 10,000 years ago, created a new biotope. In the new environment, not only domestic animals started to flourish, but also wild fauna that began to depend on human villages - and later cities - for shelter, food, and even security. And not all are useful. For... |
15 April 2008
10:11 GMT |
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Phoenicians made one of the most powerful maritime nations of the Mediterranean. No doubt, their most powerful colony was Carthage, in northern Africa, in today's Tunis, founded in 814 BC by Elissa, the sister of the king Pygmalion of Tyre, after her husband Acerbas was assassinated. Frightened for her life, Eli... |
7 April 2008
08:55 GMT |
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Nebuchadrezzar (630-562 BC) was the king of Babylon, in Mesopotamia (today's Iraq, the vast fertile region between the river Tiger and Euphrates). He managed to organize a terrible army, endowed with chivalry and war chariots, and conquered a vast empire after destroying the Assyrian empire and laying in ruins t... |
1 April 2008
02:37 GMT |
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This is the Turkish World's Wonder. In the residual relief made of tuffs and basalt lava, persecuted Christians carved churches, monasteries and dwellings. Goreme National Park, with a surface of 9,576 hectares, is located in central Anatolia, between the volcanic mountains Hasan and Erciyes, in the Nevsehir Pro... |
20 March 2008
09:55 GMT |
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Initially, Byzantium was a Greek city located on the European shore of the Bosporus strait, which separates Asia Minor from Europe. Understanding the importance of this settlement, surrounded from three parts by water, the Roman emperor Constantin re-founded this city in 330 AD, naming it by his name Constantinople. ... |
8 March 2008
07:21 GMT |
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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
11:29 GMT |
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1. Ancient Greek culture founded the western culture, with its modern traits of developing intellectual and scientific skills, a culture based on reasoning, investigation and experimentation. Ancient Greeks developed medicine, logics, aesthetics, metaphysics, mathematics and geometry, and this gave them a profound in... |
5 February 2008
14:11 GMT |
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1. Until 2025, over 60 % of the world's population of 8 billion will live in metropolises and cities. Over 90 urban centers will have populations of over 5 million of inhabitants (in 1950 just 5 such cities existed). In 1980, 22 cities had over 5 million inhabitants, 36 over 3 million, and 230 over one million. ... |
24 January 2008
16:47 GMT |
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The lost city of Paititi fueled the imagination of many adventurers and explorers along the centuries, and more recently that of tourists. The legend says that Paititi was built by the Inca hero Inkarri, founder of Cusco before retreating into the jungle following the Inca empire conquest by Spaniards, in the 16th c... |
17 January 2008
03:27 GMT |
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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
14:06 GMT |
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Ancient cities were usually located on main rivers whose waters were a source of food and sometimes protection. But on the northwestern extremity of the Arabian Desert there was a city renowned for its lack of water: Petra. In the arid areas of the Middle East the caravan routes connected cities located at great dist... |
12 December 2007
08:38 GMT |
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This is one of the best known legends of the antiquity, that of the Rome's foundation. The story starts with Romulus' and Remus' grandfather, Numitor, and his brother, Amulius, both inheriting from their father the throne of Alba Longa. But Amulius eliminated his brother and banned Numitor's daugh... |
26 November 2007
06:49 GMT |
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Not that fresh, but straight from the Zylom game labs, we have this week's game, called "The Legend of El Dorado", the Deluxe version... And of course it's a puzzle.The story of this game puts you in the shoes of an assistant. You must help a so called Dr. Van Hutton to locate a treasure buried in the rainf... |
27 September 2007
10:20 GMT |
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In his conquest of the world, Alexander the Great founded the legendary city of Alexandria when he reached Egypt. But new traces found underwater reveal a city existing on the same place at least seven centuries before the arrival of Alexander, which was even mentioned in Homer's Odyssey (describing the adventur... |
25 July 2007
02:52 GMT |
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Could you imagine half of the UK population plus Finland's population living in an area less than 1 % of the UK territory? Well, this is Tokyo city, the most populous supercity in the world. Specialists say it is going to maintain this position in the future. Only some metropolises from India and China could har... |
3 July 2007
14:56 GMT |
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007, is the day that marks the major demographic shift of the human population from rural to urban: for the first time in history there will be more city-dwellers than villagers. This is the conclusion of a research made at North Carolina State University and the University of Georgia. The UN has ... |
26 May 2007
04:59 GMT |
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Rockstar is back packing a lot of steam and it's the yearly (recently monthly) installment in the GTA series we all love to play. It's a pretty unusual port, this Vice City Stories, since it initially surfaced for the PSP console, getting a lot of praise from both gamers and press. While it was being ported... |
13 March 2007
07:13 GMT |
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