Saint-Césaire , southwest paleoanthropological site France, where in 1979 the remains of a young adult male Neanderthal were found buried in a small pit. The skeleton was recovered during archaeological salvage digs at the back of the Roche-à-Pierrot rock shelter near the village of Saint
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Montezuma Castle National Monument , archaeological site in Central Arizona , United States The memorial is located in the Verde River Valley northeast of Camp Verde and approximately 20 miles southeast of Tuzigoot National Monument . Founded in 1906, they has an area of 1.3 square -
Atapuerca , location of several limestone caves near Burgos in Northern Spain , known for the abundant human (genus Homo ), discovered there from 1976 Sima del Elefante (Elephants Pit) contains the earliest evidence of humans in western Europe - fragments of a jawbone and of Teeth d
Edinburgh Castle , stronghold that was once the residence of the Scottish monarchs and today serves mainly as a museum. Its 135 meters above sea level and overlooks the city Edinburgh from a volcanic rock called Castle Rock. Castle Rock has been the scene of human activity for at
Police Zone , southern two-thirds of South West Africa (now Namibia ), in which the German and later the South African colonial administration were able to establish an effective European style Police check from the early 20th century. The name of the area and its original boundary were a
Galilee , Hebrew Ha-galil , northernmost region of ancient Palestine, corresponding to modern north Israel . His biblical boundaries are unclear; conflicting readings leave only clear that it was part of the territory of the northern tribe of Naphtali. Britannica Quiz The Middle E
Canyon de Chelly National Monument , area of rock formations and archaeological sites in northeast Arizona , United States, in Navajo Reservation immediately east of Chinle. The name is a Spanish corruption of Tsegi , a Navajo word meaning rock canyon. The monument, built in 1931
Badakhshan , historical region of NE Afghanistan , something like includes the northern reaches of the Hindu Kush and mostly drained by the Kowkcheh River. Mountain glaciers and glacial lakes are found at the higher elevations of the region. The name Badakhshan first appears in Ch
Sussex (from Old English Suð Seaxe, southern Saxony), one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England . It ultimately fell in the modern counties area East Sussex and West Sussex together , although Hastings in East Sussex seems to be separate at times. Following the tradition preserved i
Brahmarsi-desha , country of Rsi or way. Historically, the Sanskrit term was used to describe the second region of Indo-European occupation in India - the area east of Sirhind, including the area between the rivers Yamuna (Jumna) and Ganges (Ganga) to Mathura. It included Indrapras
Aztec Ruins National Monument , archaeological site in northwest New Mexico , United States It is located on the Animas River in the city of Aztec, about 10 miles south of State line from Colorado . The National Monument was erected in 1923 and labeled a World Heritage Site in 1
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands , former Trusteeship of United Nations strategic areas that from 1947 to 1986 from the United States . The territory consisted of more than 2,000 islands covering over 7,770,000 square kilometers of tropical West Pacific scattered ocean , n
Chaco Culture National Historical Park , Northwest Native American ruins area New Mexico , United States. It is about 70 km south of Bloomfield and about 90 km northeast of Gallup . Established as Chaco Canyon National Monument in 1907, the park was renamed and renamed in 1980. a UNES
Even today, the history of ancient Egypt is often understood independently of that of Africa, Egyptologists having long tended to link this territory to the Middle East more than to the African continent. However, the geographical evidence is there:Egypt is African! And it is all the more so since
The Meiji Restoration of 1868 quickly gave way to an expansionist policy throughout East Asia. A country relatively poor in natural resources, Japan also copies the West in its desire to possess a colonial empire. His great adversary was Russia, which he succeeded in driving back from Korea in 1895
For nearly 200,000 years, like the whole of the earth, Africa was populated only by hunter-gatherers. A few thousand years ago, like everywhere else in the world, the majority of the continents populations adopted agriculture and animal husbandry. However, not all hunter-gatherer groups disappeared
A 1925 police raid in Elk Lake, during the era of prohibition in the United States • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS “Tonight, one minute after midnight, a new nation will be born. The drink demon makes his will. An era of clear ideas and fine manners begins. Slums will soon be a thing of the past. Prisons an
Gorilla in Africa. 19th century engraving • ISTOCK The publication, in 1859, of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin heightens the interest of scientists and the general public in apes, which Darwin believes share a common ancestry with mankind in the chain of evolution. The progression of th
“Case 1”:the Red Orchestra plays its part The German-Soviet pact, which in August 1939 sealed the alliance between Hitler and Stalin for two years, disrupted all branches of the Communist International, but also of the NKVD (the ancestor of the KGB) and the GRU (the military intelligence service).
As is known, the missiles current had as precursors to the projectiles V-1 and V-2 developed by the Luftwaffe (the German air force) since the 1930s, under the Nazi government , and put into service after 1944. The V-1 made its test flight in late 1941 and saw action in June 1944 targeting London,
Bambara States , two separate West African states, one based on the city Ségou , between the rivers Sénégal and Niger, and the other further Kaarta , along the middle Niger (both in present-day Mali). According to tradition, the Segu Kingdom was founded by two brothers, Barama Ngolo and
These planes first used their onboard weapons, when they had them, and normal bombs called iron bombs (undirected fall). Most of this equipment was old. Dropping bombs at very high speeds presented real dangers:armed in three seconds, they could collide with each other, explode, or hit the plane tha
Between 1097 and 1293, the medieval world saw involved in two almost continuous centuries of war between Christianity and Islam. Two ways of seeing the world, with the only separation being the Mediterranean Sea, and even the Iberian Peninsula, or the Byzantine Empire, separated by a diffuse land bo