With eight hundred thousand people in the 18th century, London was the largest city in Europe, where the greatest fortunes of the British Empire could be found and the most miserable neighborhoods in which homeless people, petty thieves, prostitutes... simply survived. Crimes against property were t
A two meter long painting of a kangaroo in the Kimberley region of Western Australia has been identified as the oldest intact cave painting in Australia. Using radiocarbon dating of 27 mud wasp nests, collected above and below 16 similar paintings, a University of Melbourne collaboration has dated
If we were to ask what the largest prisoner escape of World War II was, surely we would all automatically think of the two from Stalag Luft III. The one that was made into a movie in The Great Escape and the one known as The Wooden Horse. However, seventy-six men participated in the first, of whom
Australian archaeologists have found some of the most detailed examples of rare and small-scale rock art, virtually miniature, made using the stencil technique or stencil in a rock shelter traditionally used by the Marra people, Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory. The research, published i