The Mystery of Machu Picchu
	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 religious center. Once, Machu Picchu was located 100 km (62 mi) north of the Inca capital of Cuzco. It was inhabited by about 1, ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 09:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 10 Cities with the Most Beautiful Women
	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 the quality of women, the ratio women/men and approachability. The top looks like this: 10.Amsterdam, Holland. Indeed, the ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Largest City of Roman Dacia
	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 (300 BC to 106 AD). In this area, the Dacians developed a system of fortified fortresses and civil settlements, of w ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Birds of the Cities
	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 example, house mice and rats rely on food provided by people, from food stores to wastes. Perhaps the largest ... [read more >>]
	15 April 2008, 10:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Story of Carthage
	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, Elissa and her suite fled and landed on the Cape Bon, a place on the North African shores, oriented towards Sicily, delimiting the tw ... [read more >>]
	07 April 2008, 08:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Real Story About the Hanging Gardens and the Tower of Babel
	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 ... [read more >>]
	01 April 2008, 02:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A World's Wonder: Rock Carved Cities
	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 Province, 83 km (52 mi) off Nigde. In the volcanic rocks, erosion carved mighty shapes protected by the basalt cov ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 09:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Who Were the Byzantines?
	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. The city turned into a "New Rome" that governed the eastern part of the empire. The eastern part of the Roman empir ... [read more >>]
	08 March 2008, 07:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

8 Things About the Chinese People and Civilization
	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 Jinan, on the banks of Huang He, in the province of Shaanxi; then, under the dynasties of Yuang, Ming and Ching, Beijing turned ... [read more >>]
	13 February 2008, 11:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

10 Things You Did not Know About Ancient Greeks
	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 intellectual formation, allowed then to live more, made complex measurements that eased their trade and determined them to live ... [read more >>]
	05 February 2008, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

20 Amazing Things About Cities
	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. Two thirds of them are located in developing countries. In 1800, just London approached to 1 million. In 1850, London had 2 millio ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 16:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Legendary Lost Inca City Found in Peru
	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 century. Written records said Paititi was as a stone settlement adorned with gold statues. Old archives say that in 1600, ... [read more >>]
	17 January 2008, 03:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

World's Oldest Cities
	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 in small communities, to cultivate the land and grow animals. But these settlements were not cities. The city is ... [read more >>]
	16 January 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Petra, the Ancient City Built in Stone
	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 distances from each other. But camels, despite their extraordinary resistance, require halts for drinking. 2,000 years ago, Petra ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 08:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Cave of the Famous Roman She-Wolf Found!
	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 daughter, Rhea Silvia, from having children (which eventually would have had rights to the throne). Rhea turned into a Vestal V ... [read more >>]
	26 November 2007, 06:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Legend of El Dorado Deluxe
	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 rainforest in South America (where else?). Far from being an original idea, this game that has the same ... [read more >>]
	27 September 2007, 10:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Did Alexander Really Found Alexandria?
	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 adventures on the way back home of the Greek hero Odysseus or Ulysses, the inventor of the Trojan horse, with which the Greeks defeat ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2007, 02:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 10 Super Cities of the Future
	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 hardly reach its status. In a top made by Forbes magazine, these would be the first 10 metropolises in the world by 2015. 1. ... [read more >>]
	03 July 2007, 14:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

May 23, 2007: The Day When the World Turned Majoritary Urban
	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 already forecast that the world will be 51.3 % urban by 2010. On Wednesday, a global urban population of 3,3 ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2007, 04:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
	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 ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2007, 07:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia