Historical capital of Russia, architectural gem, intellectual and academic center, Saint-Petersburg is the second largest city in the country and one of its main ports and rail hubs. Saint-Petersburg is first and foremost the idea of one man, the Tsar of Russia Peter I the Great. Few observers wou
Analysis of a 1,000-year-old ritual pouch discovered in Bolivia has revealed traces of psychotropic substances, including the main ingredients of a powerful hallucinogenic drug consumed by the ancient inhabitants of the Andes. La Cueva del Chileno, in Bolivia, where the psychotropic drug pouch wa
About 3,000 years ago, those who inhabited the Andean area to the northwest of what is now Argentina created a unique object. An 18 by 15 centimeter copper metal plate that was given the appearance of an anthropomorphic mask of a human face, with eyes, nose and mouth in the form of holes. It was di
The Neolithic sieves found in Croatia Found in Croatia ceramic objects , very similar to sieves, dating back to about 7200 years ago , in full Neolithic. traces of milk fatty acids are still present on them , the oldest so far found in the Mediterranean basin, which suggests that they