Between 5 and 6 million years ago the Mediterranean Sea almost completely dried up. The cause was the tectonic movements that closed the Strait of Gibraltar connecting Europe and Africa. Deprived of the influx of water from the Atlantic, the Mediterranean could not balance that loss with the draina
Christmas was far from the joyful celebration expected by United Nations soldiers and many lost heart. It was particularly painful for them to note that despite their superior armament they had been unable to contain the Chinese advance. of modern warfare, took the brunt of the shock when they disco
Hammurabi was the sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon, originally from the Amorite tribes settled around the fertile crescent between the III-II millennium BC. C. According to the so-called Median Chronology, he reigned in the city of Babylon between the years 1792-1750 a. C., placing this ci
The pyramid of Djoser, near Saqqara, whose particularity is to be in steps • ISTOCKPHOTO The oldest pyramid in Egypt, that of Djoser, erected around 4,700 years ago near the site of Saqqara, needed a major renovation. It took 14 years of work to revamp the old lady, seriously shaken by an earthq