It is almost certain that there are two hidden chambers behind the walls of the young princes tomb in Luxor :the Egyptian Antiquities Minister announced it, illustrating the preliminary results of a sophisticated radar analysis. I think someone very important is buried, but I dont think its Ne
The Minotaur is a monster half man and half bull, son of Minos , king of Crete, and of Pasiphae . To the throne Minos he had arrived performing an act of force:he had expelled his brothers from the island who, like him, aspired to power. He asked the god Poseidon to send him a bull from
Griffins , fabulous animals of Greek mythology, are representations inspired by Protoceratops , quadrupedal dinosaurs About two meters long and equipped with a hooked beak, which became extinct over 60 million years ago. Eggs (frozen in permafrost) and protoceratops skeletons have been found
That of the Amazons is one of our most ancient and powerfully ambiguous myths. The persistence of its influence on the Western psyche is such that, when the Spaniards, in 1542, navigated an immense river in South America they reported sightings of Amazons and the river eventually acquired their name
The first puzzle was made in England in 1767 by the cartographer and tutor John Spilsbury (1739-1769) who had the brilliant idea of fixing a planisphere to a wooden table, then separating the individual nations with a hacksaw and following their borders. The purpose was didactic:the map thus b
The secret of the hairstyles of the ancient Egyptians was discovered by Nathalie McCreesh , scholar of the University of Manchester (England). Analyzing the hair of 18 mummies , she found that they were using a fixative gel made from animal fat , ideal both for processing and for storing you
November 26, 1476 - Vlad III , otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler , became the ruler of Wallachia for the third time. Vlad III is the 15th century prince on whom Bram Stoker based his gothic novel of 1897 Dracula . Vlad was born between 1428 and 1431, probably in Sighişaora, Transy
In December 1987 , in the Henan province , a place of origin of Chinese civilization, a shell dragon was discovered. Considered as the «first dragon of China It is important for the study of the countrys cultural history. It can be seen exposed 60 km from Zhengzhou , capital of the province
Caria , old southwest district Anatolia . One of the most thoroughly Hellenized areas, its territory included Greek cities along the Aegean coast and a mountainous interior, the north from Lydia and to the east of Phrygia and Lycia The non-Greek interior Carians considered t
Rouergue , old province of south-central France France , too much of the modern equivalent Departments Aveyron and Tarn-et-Garonne. It was to the north by the Auvergne, to the south and south-west by the Languedoc , to the east of Gévaudan and the Cevennes and west of Quercy l
Limburg , historical region of Netherlands , was one of many small states that emerged from the division of the Duchy of Lower Lorraine in the second half of the 11th century . The name Limburg eventually came into use when the rival Houses of Limburg (heirs to the first Earl, Walram of Ar
Luba-Lunda States , a complex of states that lived from the late 15th to the late 19th centuries in Central Africa (in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo ) flourished. The Luba state was located east of Kasai around the top of the Lualaba and the Lunda State east of t
Nazca Lines , Nazca also spelled Nasca , groups of geoglyphs, large line drawings, drawn from afar into the surface of the arid Pampa Colorada (Colored Plain or Red Plain) engraved northwest of the city appear to be by Nazca to the south Peru . They cover an area of almost 500
Kingdom of Naples , state covering the southern part of the Italian peninsula from the Middle Ages to 1860. It was often politically united with Sicily. Read more about this topic Italy:Naples and Sicily Under the Austrian Habsburg rule after 1707, there were numerous reform plans in Naples,
Ḥiṣn al-Ghurāb (Arabic:Crow Castle), old Cane , historical Bergstätte on the south coast of Arabia in southern Yemen . On the top of the mountain are the ruins of an old castle, a watchtower, cisterns and other structures. On flat ground immediately north of the mountain are the rem
Wadai , historical African kingdom east of Chad and west of Darfur, in modern-day Region Ouaddaï ( see there ) to the east of the Chad . It was founded in the 16th century and around 1630 there was a Muslim Dynasty Long dependent on Darfur, it became independent in the 179
Appomattox Court House , in the American Civil War , place in Virginia surrender of Confederate forces to those of the North on April 9, 1865. After an engagement with the Confederate cavalry, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia surrounded in Appomattox, seat of Appomattox County, Vi
Congo Free State , French État Indépendant du Congo , former state in Africa , which occupied almost the entire Congo river basin, along with the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo . It was founded in the 1880s as a private property by a group of European investors led by Leop
Sukhothai Kingdom , former kingdom, north-central Thailand . It was founded in the mid-13th century when a local Tai rulers led an uprising against Khmer rule. It remained a small local power until its third ruler, Ramkhamhaeng , the kingdom c inherited . 1279. He extended h
Ghūrid Sultanate , Empire centered in Ghur (modern Ghowr) in west-central Afghanistan from the middle of the 12th to the beginning of the 13. century. Its founder was ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Ḥusayn . Ghūr is a mountainous area southeast of the region Herāt and northwest of the Helmand- T
As it happens with all the regiments that existed in the year 1899,[1] there is a copy of the history of the Alcántara Cavalry Regiment guarded in the General Military Archive of Segovia; however, it is surprising that everything that appears in said archive until the year 1851, after the reorganiza
Shrapnel, named after its inventor Henry Shrapnel, is the name for bullet shell. The term shrapnel is often misused to designate small fragments projected by an explosion whatever their origin. In 1784, Lieutenant Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842) of the British Royal Artillery Corps (Royal Artillery)
A nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SNLE), also known as SSBN (Sub-Surface Ballistic Nuclear) according to the NATO code, is a very large naval nuclear-powered submarine, equipped with nuclear-charged strategic ballistic missiles in vertical silos and launched from a dive. It is also equipped wit
It is known as the Gallic War to the military conflict waged between the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar and the Gallic tribes between 58 and 51 BC. These were not a handful of barbarians, quite the contrary, they were civilized tribes with great influence from Rome, most of which had abandoned the mo