For a long time during its early years, NR-1 was a classified mission vehicle, the smallest of the Navy's submarine fleet, and the only one that was able and destined to perform search and recovery missions, ocean exploration, as well as underwater installation and maintenance works up to a depth of more than ha... |
1 December 2008
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A recent study on Stonehenge comes to thwart the conclusions of the preceding ones, by claiming that the monument was, in fact, not a healing center, as it was demonstrated a few weeks ago, but a cremating cemetery.This discovery provides further fuel for the century-old ongoing debate over the purposes of England�... |
10 October 2008
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Although this is not the first time when an ancient burial ground is found near Rome, the one recently discovered is amongst the few belonging to people of a lower social class. It is located near the main airport of today's Rome and was dated to the 1st, possibly the 2nd century. The remaining skeletons indicat... |
10 June 2008
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Since ancient times, people associated the idea of the immortality of the soul, rooted in Plato's teachings, with evergreen plants. With a right trunk, arched branches and fusiform treetop, the cypress tree is generally recognized as the funerary tree in the Mediterranean area. In antiquity, this tree, always gr... |
14 November 2007
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From African explorers to the Tarzan's adventures, we have heard about the mysterious elephants' graveyards. Now, researchers have revealed an Ice Age graveyard of the Ice Age's elephants: mammoths. The fossils, some of them complete skeletons of Mammuthus columbi, the Columbian mammoth, were stored i... |
8 May 2007
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