Ancient history

• The oldest bread in the world

  It is the oldest bread ever found so far: is about 14,000 years old and was found in the Black Desert of Jordan by a group of researchers from the universities of Copenhagen, Cambridge and University College London. According to the research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Scie

• The Assyrians

  Around 1600 BC new peoples attacked the Babylonian Empire and occupied Mesopotamia. The Assyrians they have lived in this area since 1100 BC. until 600 BC The Assyrians were nomads and came from the mountains that are north of Mesopotamia. Assur was the ancient capital of the Assyrians. The

• The Olympic Games

  According to tradition, the first Olympiad it was inaugurated in 776 BC, the year it became for the Greeks the beginning of one of their dating systems. They were essentially religious feasts deriving from a collective commemorative cult of the great founding ancestors and monarchs of some ci

• The Babylonians

  The Babylonians , around 2000 BC , had begun to occupy the entire valley of the Tigris and Euphrates. Around 1880 BC a single king had conquered all the ancient city-states and the first empire of Mesopotamia was born . The capital of this empire was Babylon, which had become a rich and powe

• Our first ancestors

  Modern humans belong to the primate family known as hominids or “ great apes “. Even chimpanzees and the gorillas are classified as hominids. Modern humans share a common ancestor with chimpanzees from about 8 million years ago . Since that time various species of bipedal hominids have e

• The Graecopithecus:A Common Ancestor Between Humans and Chimpanzees?

  According to a new study, the last common ancestor between humans and chimpanzees - improperly known as the missing link - may have lived in the Eastern Mediterranean , and not in Africa as previously thought. The controversial theory comes from a fossil study of two individuals of Graecopithec

• Chronology of Evolution

  55 million years ago The first primates primitives evolve. 8 - 6 million years ago The first gorillas they evolve. Later, chimpanzees and human lineages diverge . 5.8 million years ago Orrorin tugenensis , the oldest human ancestor who was thought to have walked on two legs.

• Inventions of the Ancient Greeks

  The golden period of Greek inventions was the III century BC. C. :among the many inventions developed, devices were created capable of exploiting the energy of water and even mechanical devices intended for public performances. In addition to the famous Archimedes of Syracuse (287 BC circa - 2

• Out of Africa

  The rapid transformation of knowledge about the evolution of hominids in Asia is forcing a re-examination of ideas about the initial dispersions of hominids from Africa to Eurasia. Hominids appear in the fossil record from about 6 million to 7 million years ago in Africa, and the earliest hominid

• In addition to the "present world"

  The British Museum , one of the largest and most important museums in the history of the world, was founded in 1753 by Sir Hans Sloane , a doctor and scientist who has collected a literary and artistic heritage in its original nucleus: the Montague House library in London , later purchased by

• From Bulgaria to Africa?

  7 million years ago the corn and sunflower fields of some vast areas of southern Bulgaria they were covered with savannahs similar to those that affect Africa tropical of our day, gazelles and giraffes roamed us. And perhaps even, surprisingly, the oldest ancestor of the human species moved the

• Persian cuisine

  The Greek authors (in particular Herodotus ) speak of the refined Persian gastronomy that influenced the way of cooking even in neighboring countries and became famous for the delicate sauces, based on pomegranate or grape juices, mixed with fruit and spices, which accompanied the dishes. Rice was

• The oldest wreck in the world

  The island of Dokos is located about 60 miles east of Sparta, Peloponnese . Among the many testimonies of ancient frequentations, its waters host the remains of a shipwreck considered the oldest known by archaeologists, which dates back to the second Proto-Helladic period, or between 2700 and 22

• The first university headquarters

  The University of Göttingen Georgia Augusta, founded in 1734 by Elector Georg August of Hanover (since 1727 also king of England with the name of George II ), is the first university where not only teaching is organized, but a whole course of study based on the teaching of History and inte

• Monkeys with human genes in the brain

  A team of Chinese scientists has announced that they have carried out genetic experiments on a group of monkeys in order to obtain primates from human intelligence. The announcement came from researchers at the Kunming Institute of Zoology . Genes that control brain development in humans have be

• The first genetically modified children were born in China

  He Jiankui of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen (China) announced to the world that it had worked on the conception and birth of the first genetically modified children:it would be a pair of Chinese twins, who came to light in early November. The news was spread from

• New Homo species discovered in the Philippines

  A third hominid metatarsal discovered in 2007 in the Callao cave (in the north of Luzon , in the Philippines ) and dated to 67 thousand years ago it provided the first direct evidence of a human presence in the Philippines . The analysis of this bony foot suggested that it belonged to th

• Thermoluminescence (TL)

  This technique is specific for any material containing various minerals, mainly quartz or feldspar, which has undergone prolonged heating at temperatures of the order of a few hundred degrees. They can be dated:ceramics, terracotta and bricks, porcelain, furnaces, hearths, fusion lands. For them

• The Plague already present in the Neolithic

  The bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis , was responsible for some of the most devastating pandemics in history. The Black Death killed at least a third of the European population in the 14th century , while the first recorded outbreak was the so-called Justinian plague

• The first Postal System

  It is almost obvious to say that, since writing has existed, correspondence has existed. However, it is well known that the first postal system was invented in ancient Persia around 550 BC , during the reign of Cyrus the Great . The Persian ruler ordered each province of the kingdom to or