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Studies on the origins of Homo sapiens have revealed that our species most likely appeared in tree-dotted savannas, somewhere in central-eastern Africa. But a new proposal says that our ancestors may have evolved on the banks of major rivers as well.
The fact that rivers played an important role in human history is... |
21 December 2011
07:44 GMT |
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Take-Two Interactive has confirmed that its successful Civilization V strategy game will be re-released later this month in the form of a Game of the Year edition, which includes all of the previously launched downloadable content for it, as well as extra goodies.Civilization V impressed quite a lot of gamers by mana... |
15 September 2011
14:21 GMT |
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2K Games and Firaxis have just announced that the recent Civilization V turn-based strategy title will receive two new downloadable content packs next week.
Civilization V has been seeing a slow and steady stream of DLC be released for it, bringing new types of civilizations and maps with which players can develop... |
29 April 2011
02:35 GMT |
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Brad Wardell, who is the chief executiveoOfficer of game developer and publisher Stardock, has projected that in the long term its 2010 fantasy-based strategy game Elemental: War of Magic will end up losing money for the company despite the fact that the initial release was pretty successful and turned up a profit.
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13 January 2011
03:12 GMT |
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Social games developer Zynga has expressed confidence in its prospects for 2011, saying that it is interested in perfecting the formula for its popular Facebook based video games while creating experiences that transcend those that it is currently offering.
Mark Skaggs, who is the vice president of product develop... |
3 January 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Researches believe they may have stumbled upon some of the oldest signs of burying rituals ever discovered, which appear to have been left behind some 5,000 years ago.The artifact the experts studied was the Otzi skeleton, which was discovered in the Alps some 19 years ago. The Iceman was until now thought to have be... |
27 August 2010
02:02 GMT |
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Last year, scientists from Bonn and Mexico started to uncover and map the walls of a very ancient Mayan city, called Uxul, and in the process they discovered huge water reservoirs.These big pools are called 'aguadas' and they are “about 100m square”, said Iken Paap, who directs the project with ... |
26 August 2010
08:50 GMT |
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One of the things that annoy archaeologists and historians most is the fact that ancient people were in the habit of presenting only the privileged few when designing artwork. Regardless of whether we're talking about papyrus scrolls, murals, paintings, music or text, there is always a certain group of people th... |
8 March 2010
02:53 GMT |
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It's been a while since the venerable Civilization series made headlines. The most recent release has been that of Civilization Revolution, which brought the unique mechanics of 4X turn-based world domination to handhelds to some success. Civilization IV, helped by its two expansions, Warlords and Beyond the Sw... |
22 October 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Aspyr Media has recently announced plans to launch Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization for Mac OS X this holiday season in North America, by partnering up with 2K Games. Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization is the fifth installment in the Civilization IV franchise, but it will not require the o... |
29 September 2009
05:27 GMT |
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When the government of the United States of America becomes interested in taking over some aspects of the banks that have generated the recession, a lot of people scream “socialism.”What will they say when they see that a Californian representative aims to restrict the amount of time that someone can spen... |
15 April 2009
05:46 GMT |
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It appears that THQ has decided to lay off some of the people employed by Big Huge Games, the developer studio that is wholly owned by THQ and responsible for the Rise of Nations series. Earlier, the publisher stated that it aimed to sell the development studio or to close it down as part of a strategy to focus on qu... |
2 April 2009
13:31 GMT |
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The Ancient Pre-Columbian Society of the Supe, which reigned supremely in a part of modern-day Peru in a period of time stretching from approximately 3000 to 1800 BC, is now believed to have been annihilated by a devastating series of natural disasters, including earthquakes and massive floods, which forced the popul... |
20 January 2009
03:53 GMT |
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Take Two announces that some of the titles released in 2008 under its 2K Games brand will have their prices reduced for a promotion period, which goes on until the end of the month.Until January 31, anyone can go to a special section of the official site of 2K Games and then print the coupon that can be found there. ... |
7 January 2009
02:20 GMT |
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Take Two has revealed its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2008 and the results are all but good. The company that published such hits as Grand Theft Auto IV, developed by Rockstar, has seen revenue from videogames sales increase, while the losses it has incurred reached 15 million dollars, which is double... |
18 December 2008
04:56 GMT |
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Peru once again proves the fact that it is an archaeological El Dorado, one of the few places where ancient scientific treasures lie beneath the ground, waiting to be found. Its hundreds of archaeological sites reveal the legacy of old cultures that existed thousands of years ago, spanning many cultures, such as the ... |
17 December 2008
10:56 GMT |
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Six percent of the population in the Mediterranean communities descends from the ancient civilization of Phoenicians, according to a new study. During the third Punic War (149-146 BC), the Phoenician capital of Carthage (meaning “The New City”), was destroyed by the Romans, and a massive systematic execut... |
31 October 2008
05:09 GMT |
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A new adobe temple named Collud has been uncovered in the northern region of the Lambayeque valley in Peru. The third such edifice to be found in the area, the temple seems to have been dedicated to a spider god by its builders, the little-known civilization of Cupinisque, who ruled the area for about five centuries... |
30 October 2008
11:57 GMT |
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A recent research based on the bone remains of ancient Inca people points to the differences between them, indicating that they belonged to a large number of people brought in by the Incan elite to perform the chores that would eventually make Machu Picchu and the Inca civilization thrive. The permanent workers, cal... |
28 October 2008
10:03 GMT |
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A recent discovery indicates that early humans have first known the principles of fire-making 790 millennia ago, when mastering this skill allowed them protection against wild animals, and also ensured light and warmth in their sturdy hearths. This superiority made them boldly explore and expand the territorial domin... |
27 October 2008
07:44 GMT |
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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 victim ... |
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
16:06 GMT |
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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
12:27 GMT |
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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
04:53 GMT |
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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
17:16 GMT |
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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
05:30 GMT |
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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
05:28 GMT |
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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
15:11 GMT |
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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
14:46 GMT |
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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
14:06 GMT |
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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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