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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 Lamb... |
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
07:45 GMT |
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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
05:40 GMT |
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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
02:11 GMT |
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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
03:18 GMT |
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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
12:18 GMT |
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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 Galacti... |
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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