Near the town of Blythe, located in the southeast of the state of California near the border with Arizona in the Colorado desert, there is a series of huge figures carved into the ground. They are not the only ones, but they are the most famous among the approximately 200 that are distributed along
The first animals formed complex ecological communities more than 550 million years ago, laying the evolutionary groundwork for the Cambrian explosion, according to a study by Rebecca Eden, Emily Mitchell and colleagues at the University of Cambridge, UK, published in the open access journal PLOS Bi
A new study led by researchers at the University of Arizona may have solved two mysteries that have long baffled paleoclimate experts:Where did the ice sheets that marked the last ice age more than 100,000 years ago come from, and how? could they grow so quickly? Understanding what drives Earths gl
Scapa Flow is a bay located in the Scottish Orkney Islands, just over 20 km long by about 15 km wide. Its geographical position, its sheltered waters and an almost constant depth of 40 meters have made it a true natural port. Which has been used since the Vikings in the Middle Ages, until the 20th c
When David Livingstone, effectively that of “Doctor Livingstone I suppose” arrived at the spectacular Victoria Falls in 1855, little could he imagine that it would be the beginning of one of the most terrible episodes in the history of the African continent. In short, without interruption, the Europ
On February 12, 1873, Amadeus I, the most democratic king that Spain knew in the 19th century, took his suitcases and undertook a trip to Portugal. Not without first making it very clear what he thought of the Spanish: “If Spains enemies were foreigners, I would be the first to fight them, but all t
The Treaty of Versailles is one of the greatest mistakes in the history of Europe. The Great War had just ended, the first time that a conflict like this spread to all continents, in memory about 10 million dead soldiers and an uncountable number of civilian lives. The heart of Europe was destroyed
Very close to Barcelona and in a unique environment, we find the “Montanya de Montserrat Natural Park”. In which multiple excursions can be made, I will definitely stay with this one, which unites the beauty of the landscape and brings you closer to the history of the monks who inhabited it since th
The industrial revolution forever changed world history . The main scene of this change was England, and if we have to look for an actor, one of the main ones was the cotton textile production. Exactly during the eighteenth century, England will become the testing ground for inventors and inventions
To the first time visitor to Cervera , and you dont know the history of the city, it may surprise you how this small town ended up becoming a university campus. Before starting the topic in depth, I would like to clarify that my intention is to relate the facts by which Cervera manages to have sai
Find a castle in Scotland It really doesnt have much merit. His slogan of him; the country of a thousand castles has its reason for being. Although this one in particular, the Menzies castle, is neither by far one of the most visited, nor one of the most spectacular. But instead his stories are real
As soon as the eighteenth century began, a new kingdom emerged strong in Europe. On the territories of the old electorate of Brandenburg and united to those of the Duchy of Prussia, with capital in Berlin. Its first king will be Frederick I and his name will be Prussia, which by the way will become
In the late 16th century, Philip II , after being crowned king of Portugal, in the midst of the 80-year war, he had under his power one of the largest empires in history. At that time his royal possessions occupied part of the four known continents, Asia, America, Africa and of course Europe. It is
The historical period of the Modern Age is characterized by endless wars, pacts, treaties and peaces. Although of all these events, the Peace of Westphalia, according to a large part of historiography, marked a before and after when it came to looking for excuses to start a new war. Historical conte
The 80-year war, which pitted Spain in the 16th century against the Netherlands, was the greatest challenge that the heirs of Emperor Charles V had to face. The difficulties were enormous, and the solutions that had to be sought were exceptional. The Spanish Way became a military corridor of nearly
Ibn Mardanish , renamed King Wolf by contemporary Christians, was born around the year 1125 in the town of Peñiscola, during the Almoravid domain of al-Andalus. He did so within a family of Hispanic origin converted to Islam, an aspect that marked much of his future in history. Ibn Mardanishs rise t
At the beginning of the 20th century, Greek politicians still They continued to curse the presence of the Almogavars, six centuries before, in Greek lands. Possibly forgetting that they were called upon by themselves, to shake off the Turks in the darkest hours of the Byzantine Empire. Neither savio
If history has shown us anything, it is that great personalities like Charlemagne, usually achieve great achievements. Given the previous facts, we can think that few imagined that on October 9, 768, that the young man of just over 20 years who had just inherited a part of the kingdom of the Franks,
We discover nothing if we say that the Kingdom of Aragon , later the Crown of Aragon, became one of the most powerful kingdoms in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. His domains ranged from the Pyrenees to the south of Alicante, without forgetting much of southern Italy and almost all the western
We move to the beginning of the 10th century, to meet a Europe plunged into a great crisis of faith in Christianity. A religion, which, on the other hand, does not stop expanding geographically to the north, to the east, and also to the south, reaching areas of the Iberian Peninsula in dispute with
Pope Innocent III called for a crusade in August 1198, just months after his election, to liberate the Holy Land that Saladin had reconquered. The plan is to seize Egyptian ports to exchange them for Jerusalem. The kings of France and England were then at war while the Holy Roman Emperor still conte
Vampire by Edvard Munch (1893). • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS During the 18th and 19th century, an epidemic of vampirism spreads in Europe. As Rousseau stated in 1762:“If there is any attested history in the world, it is that of vampires; nothing is missing; minutes, certificates from notables, surgeons,
The great conflict known to history as the Crimean War had deep political causes, chief among them, Russias deepest desire to break up the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Against it, however, Russia found Britain and France, which, for their own reasons, did not wish for the definitive death of the great
Apolonio Molón, also known as Molón de Rodas, was certainly cool . In the first decades of the 1st century B.C. there was no more famous orator in the entire Mediterranean. He was born in Alabanda, a Greek city in Caria (today present-day Doganyurt on the southwestern coast of Turkey). He studied un