The ancient Romans had a special soft spot for Garo (Latin garum ), a sauce prepared with fermented fish viscera that was used to season or accompany a large number of meals, although it was also used in medicine and cosmetics. Some remains of factories of this preparation have been found throughou
Some Polynesians would have Amerindian genetic ancestry, evidence of an ancient contact, which would have occurred around 1200 AD, with inhabitants of South America. Matavai Bay (Tahiti), canvas by William Hodges (1776). It is thanks to their mastery of the winds and currents, and especially to th
It sounds like an adventure novel by Rider Haggard or Rice Burroughs, or an Indiana Jones movie, but the fact is that a diver thinks he has discovered the ruins of a legendary city two-thousand-year-old African city mentioned in classical sources and that some historians consider to have been the
At over 1,300 feet long, the Great Serpent Mound is one of the most enigmatic buildings in the United States. It is located in Adams County in Ohio and its name alludes to its reptile-like shape with a triangular head and undulating body that curls into a spiral at the end. Its dimensions, 411 met