An Australian study rewrites the dawn of modern man by identifying the exact place of its appearance through the analysis of DNA. The first homeland of modern man was located in a large area of southern Africa, in present-day northern Botswana, where our ancestor lived between 200,000 and 130,00
In the Middle Ages , it was believed that children they had an undeveloped brain and that this did not allow them to feel pain . The interventions on children were therefore performed without any natural anesthesia, and if they cried, it was thought to be for bad behavior. It was also believe
In the buildings of the 13th-14th centuries, several generations lived under the same roof. The buildings all had a single central hall that allowed access to the other rooms in such a way as to allow easy control of the house. On the ground floor the floors were paved or paved, while the upper fl
For the first time since 1965 , two pyramids built by the ancient Egyptians, including the exclusive Bent Pyramid “, Have been open to the public. The two pyramids - the Bent Pyramid and its satellite in the royal necropolis of Dashur - they are approximately 25 miles (40 kilometers) sou
19 JULY 2019 A bust of a statue of a warrior was found Dace in white marble by the archaeologists of the Superintendence Capitolina to Goods cultural engaged in the archaeological excavation of via Alexandrina . The bust probably belongs to one of the approximately 60-70 statues
Archaeologists learned of this location, called the Motza site , for decades. However, now that the government plans to build a new highway entrance and new roundabouts, the Israel Antiquities Authority sent a team to carry out a large-scale excavation of the Neolithic settlement. The humans w
The ancient Philistines, famous for their appearances in the Hebrew Bible, including the story of David and the giant Philistine Goliath - were not from present-day Israel. The Philistines are descended from a group of seafaring Europeans. After analyzing the DNA of 10 people buried in a Phili
Located in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem, the tomb consists of a long rock bank (the funerary bed), on which, according to tradition, the body of Jesus Christ was laid after the crucifixion:a typical burial of the wealthy Jews who lived in Jerusalem in the first centu
Antikythera , the island in front of Kythera, today it has only 44 inhabitants on an area of 20 km2. In 1902 it was some sponge fishermen who found the wreck of an ancient sailing ship that was carrying a load of precious objects, statues, vases of fine workmanship and silver coins. They soug
“I am Ciro , King of the world, great King, mighty King, King of Babylon, King of the Land of Sumer and Akkad , King of the four corners of the earth, son of Cambyses , great King, King of Anshan , grandson of Ciro , great King of Anshan , descendant of an infinite royal line ... When
ISLAM The region of origin of the pre-Islamic Arab populations is the Arabian peninsula, a territory consisting for the most part of a large desert with few oases scattered in the immense sea of land and sand. An exception to this type of environment is the southern coastal strip of the penin
The first country in which the profession of historian it defines itself on the institutional level as Germany . In 1819 is established in Berlin by the former minister von Stein, the Gesellschaft für Deutschlands ältere Geschichtskunde [ Society for the Ancient History of Germany ]:the fi
Hammurabi , in Akkadian Khammurabi , from the Amorite Ammurapi , that is, “Ammu heals” was the sixth king of Babylon of the so-called Babylonian I dynasty. he is remembered for having unified lower Mesopotamia and above all for having promulgated a collection of laws known as the Code o
Semitic nomadic tribes present in the regions between PALESTINE and the EUFRATE river , imposed themselves from the III millennium BC in MESOPOTAMIA and in SYRIA , but nevertheless they preferred to merge with the local populations, trying to enter the wealthy classes; their best period fa
Around 2000 BC , the Phoenicians they lived in the lands of present-day Lebanon and in a small part of Syria; later, they also occupied other territories along the coasts of the Mediterranean. The Phoenicians they did not have a unitary state. In fact, their cities were independent, each wi
The Franks occupied the territories of a large part of what is now France and a part of Germany . They were the first Germanic people to convert to Catholicism , at the beginning of the VI century , with king Clovis of the Merovingian dynasty (from the name of Meroveo , a legendary a
The real name of this mythical character is Sharrukenu . he Lived in central Mesopotamia around 2150 BC It was the cupbearer of the king of Kish (Sumerian city) that became Ensi (lord) and became, after the victory over the ruler of Uruk Lugalzagesi, ruler of the entire Mesopotamia: Lord o
The first stirrups found in Europe are attributable to the fourth century AD and come from the tombs of the Sarmatian knights in the Kuban river basin in the north of the Caucasus . Just as some iron brackets belong to the fifth century AD, with the slit for the passage of the lash and the usua
There are very curious expressions born in the Middle Ages . Like “ is a different kettle of fish ”And“ tip . The first derives from the medieval use of washing only the sleeves of clothes, which when they were dirty were removed and replaced with a clean pair, the second recalls the traditio
Humans have extraordinarily developed brains compared to other animals. Mammals weighing 60 Kg. they have an average brain of 200 cubic centimeters . The Sapiens modern has a brain that averages 1200-1400 cubic centimeters . The brain of the Neanderthal it was even bigger. In Homo Sap
The Habsburg Empire was Frances most persistent adversary from 1792 to 1815. A little-known aspect of its involvement in these wars concerns its ordinary national guards. In the Austro-Hungarian Empire there was a multi-ethnic state. In order to maintain his coherence he had to follow a particularly
The Panzerkampfwagen I (armored battle vehicle I) known as the Panzer I (Pz I) was the first battle tank of the reborn German army. It entered service in 1934, essentially being a test vehicle for the development of more powerful tanks. It had a weight of 5.4 (Ausf A) – 6 tons (Ausf B), maximum a
The Ottoman-Persian War of 1821-23 was caused by border disputes between the two powers in present-day Azerbaijan, which Russia incited to put pressure on the Turks. In 1821 the Greek Revolution broke out. The Greeks achieved important victories and liberated important areas. The Turks overwhel
Such were the results of the efforts and sacrifices of the three allies.Efforts of the French first, who, after having covered the concentration and the approach of the English and the Americans, aided them effectively, on the Dorsale, in a mountain war for which our allies, motorized, were ill-prep