The Spartans are deservedly famous as the most tenacious warriors of Greek antiquity. They never gave up, they never backed down, and we have many examples of this, such as the mythical battle of Thermopylae. They could be defeated, but at the cost of much blood and many lives. However there is one
The staggered formation in the military field it is a type of formation where the units are arranged diagonally. Each one is placed just behind and to the right of the previous one (or to the left, but all on the same side). Throughout history it has been used on many occasions and by many armies an
Did you think that the idea of superhero is it exclusively current? Throughout history, individuals endowed with superior and anomalous capacities have always been imagined, thanks to which they helped humanity. They werent wearing colored tights, okay, but Stan Lee and Joe Shuster they were not b
The progress of humanity is measured based on many aspects. One of them are the laws and regulations, which have been developed since ancient times in the most advanced civilizations as a means of guaranteeing coexistence and politically organizing the territory. If we find similarities in many of
When we talk about which was the greatest emperor of Rome You have to be careful with that adjective and clarify in what sense it is applied. For most, the description fits Octavian Augustus, who was the first and the one who imposed the Pax Romana; for others, the Christians of other centuries, tha
We can already see an impressive trailer for the film 300, based on the work of Frank Miller, and which tells the heroic deed of the 300 Spartans who, under the command of their king Leonidas, resisted the advance of the Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae. After five days of battle the Spartan
The Antikythera Mechanism was discovered in 1902 in the wreckage of a sunken ancient Roman ship. Reconstructed from the 81 fragments and gears found, it has been studied for several years by an Anglo-Greek team of scientists. Now they have published their conclusions in the journal Science:it could
According to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , new research provides further evidence that rocks representing up to a billion years of geologic time were sculpted by ancient glaciers during the Snowball Earth period. (or global glaciation) of the planet. The res
In the year 1833 workers in a quarry on Mount Bryn yr Ellyllon (literally Hill of the Fairies ) in Mold, a town in the county of Flintshire in North Wales, found a prehistoric burial mound containing a simple stone-lined tomb. It contained the remains of an individual on which a golden object had be
A species of giant two-humped camel, Camelus knoblochi is known to , lived for about a quarter of a million years in Central Asia. A new study published in Frontiers in Earth Science shows that the last refuge of C. knoblochi it was in Mongolia, until about 27,000 years ago. In Mongolia, the latter
In the southeast of Algeria, in the middle of the Sahara desert and near the border with Libya and Mali, there is a large mountainous plateau called Tassili n’Ajjer (literally plateau of the rivers ), located at more than 1,000 meters of altitude. The place, which covers an area of 72,000 square
After the Neolithic, European populations showed increased height and intelligence, decreased skin pigmentation, and increased risk of cardiovascular disease due to genetic changes that lowered concentrations of good HDL cholesterol. The changes reflect ongoing evolutionary processes in humans and h
New research from the University of Warwick, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Reichman University, Pompeu Fabra University and the Barcelona School of Economics challenges the conventional wisdom that the transition from foraging to farming drove the development of complex and hierarchical societ
Some 12,000 years ago, something seared a vast swath of Chiles Atacama Desert with heat so intense it turned the sandy soil into vast plates of silicate glass. Now, a research team studying the distribution and composition of these glasses has reached a conclusion about the cause of hell. In a stud
An unprecedented abundance of ocean life played a crucial role in creating Earths mountains, a landmark study led by scientists at the University of Aberdeen has revealed. While the formation of mountains is usually associated with the collision of tectonic plates, which causes huge rock plates to
A new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people in southern Britain during the Bronze Age. Led by the University of York, Harvard Medical School and the University of Vienna, it shows that people who moved into southern Britain around 1300-800 B.C. they were responsible for about half t
For thousands of years, during the last ice age, generations of seafaring migrants rowed east across shallow ocean waters from Asia to present-day Alaska in leather boats. They traveled from island to island and eventually to the coast, surviving on the abundant seaweed, fish, shellfish, birds, and
A billion-year-old fossil has been discovered in the Scottish Highlands, providing a new link in the evolution of animals. A team of scientists, led by the University of Sheffield (UK) and Boston College (USA), has found a microfossil containing two different cell types and could be the first multi
For the first time, researchers have managed to sequence the complete genome of the skull of Peştera Muierii 1, a woman who lived 35,000 years ago and whose remains were found in the cave of the same name (or Cueva de Muierilor) in Baia de Fier, in the southern Romania. Her high genetic diversity
In his book From the monkey to the Man , the naturalist and writer Herbert Wendt said that one of the greatest, most fascinating and perhaps disappointing discoveries that man has made is the elucidation of his own origin , despite the fact that the field of research that studies it is one of the
In 1939-1940, the volume of production of the Soviet war industry had increased. In 1940, for example, 8,331 combat aircraft were manufactured, but these were mostly aircraft of an outdated type. However, it was during this period that the Lavochkine, Yakovlev, Mikoyan-Gurevitch fighters, the famous
The Republic of Indonesia is a transcontinental country located in Southeast Asia and Oceania (islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean). In Indian Puranas it is called ”Dwipantara Bharat” meaning cross-sea India. This is why European historians and travelers called it Indonesia which sounds like ”Indi
The Visigoths were a branch of the Gothic peoples, belonging in turn to the East Germanic tribes that between 600 and 300 B.C. they migrated from Scandinavia to the region between the Oder and Vistula rivers. Some researchers believe that the Visigoths are the same people as the Thervingi , as the
On October 6, 1941, German invaders occupied Bryansk in the USSR. A little later a technician at a local factory and a teacher at a local technical school, Bronisław Kaminski and Konstantin Voskoboynik presented themselves to the Germans and offered their services. The Germans accepted and soon a