Robert William Thomson (July 26, 1822 - March 8, 1873), was born in Stonehaven, Scotland, and was a self-taught inventor (he learned chemistry, electricity, and astronomy with the help of a local weaver) and the true inventor of the tire. On December 10, 1845, Scottish engineer Robert W.
A collection of 16 terracotta figures dating from the Han Dynasty (202 BC - AD 8), was discovered on the outskirts of Qingdao, Shandong province, east China, local archaeologists explained to different media. This is the first time Painted terracotta figures are discovered in the Jiaodong Peninsula, which includes Qingdao, Yantai and Weihai.
Antrodemus SheetTranslation: “Strongly built” Also known as: Allosaurus Description: Carnivore, bipedal Order: Saurischia Suborder: TheropodaInfraorder: TetanuraeMicroorder: CarnosauriaFamily: AllosauridaeHeight: 5 metersLength: 12 metersLatex Legacy weight: 3,630 kgJosephusian Legacy name: 3,630 kg 1870, to a very incomplete fossil belonging to a dinosaur of the Allosauridae family, found in the Morrison Formation.
An exhaustive investigation has determined that the Ka'ba-i-Zartosht, known as the 'Cube of Zoroaster', famous square sculpture in southern Iran, has no risk of sinking. The cube is one of the most important monuments to be found in Naqsh-e Rostam, an archaeological site northwest of Persepolis listed as a UNESCO heritage site.
For the first time, an international team of scientists, led from the Natural History Museum of Denmark (University of Copenhagen), has discovered a crater, produced by the impact of a meteorite, under the continental ice of the Earth. It is located in the northwest of Greenland, hidden by the Hiawatha Glacier.
The Dental Anthropology Group of the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH) has just published in the journal Comptes Rendus PALEVOL a study on dental histology in which the sample from the Sima de los Huesos site is compared for the first time, in Atapuerca (Burgos), with dental samples from the Neanderthal site of Krapina, in Croatia, as well as with different current human populations.
Anchisaurus fileTranslation: Close reptileAlso known as: YaleosaurusDescription: Herbivorous, quadruped, herbivoreOrder: SaurischiaSuborder: SauropodomorphaInfraorder: ProsauropodaFamily: AnchisauridaeHeight: 0.9 metersLength: 2.4m
A study carried out in Cueva Bajondillo (Torremolinos, Málaga) by an international team made up of researchers from Spain, Japan and the United Kingdom reveals that modern humans replaced Neanderthals some 44,000 years ago, published today in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution and in which scientists from the universities of Granada (UGR), Seville and Córdoba participate, shows that the replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans in southern Iberia is an early, not late, phenomenon in the context of Western Europe.
Although with many pending subjects and the perpetual demand for an increase in investments, it is necessary to recognize that the Andalusian historical heritage is going through a series of achievements that proves the undeniable potential of its enclaves and monuments. In 2016, without going any further, the Organization of the United Nations for Education, Science and Culture (Unesco for its acronym in English) declared as a World Heritage Site the archaeological complex of the dolmens of Antequera (Málaga), made up of the megalithic constructions of Menga, Viera and El Romeral, and in 2018 the ruins of the old palatial city of Medina Azahara, built in the 10th century by the Umayyad dynasty as the seat of the Caliphate of Córdoba, received the same seal.
A small glass, which until now had barely been given importance, has turned out to be the fragment of a bottle that contained a hedonistic message, destined for the aristocracy of 1,600 years ago. The piece was located in the Roman town of Veranes (Gijón ), excavated since 1997 by Carmen Fernández Ochoa, Emeritus Professor of Archeology at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), and Fernando Gil Sendino, from the UAM Foundation.
We leave you a list with the main religion of each country in Africa, arranged alphabetically, where Islam is considered the predominant religion of the continent: Angola: Christianity (41). Algeria: Islam (100). Sunnism is predominant Benin: Catholicism (27.1) Botswana: Christianity (71.6) Burkina Faso: Islam (60.5).
Kupala is the goddess who represents the powerful sun of the summer solstice, and is also considered the goddess of joy and water. Sometimes depicted as a man, as in the Slavic legend of Kupalo and Kostroma, she was the daughter of Simargl (deity depicted as a lion or winged dog) and Kulpalnitsa (goddess of the night), and sister of Kostroma.
The Greek Ministry of Culture reported that excavations at the archaeological site of Akrotiri, the "Minoan Pompeii," on the Greek island of Santorini, have revealed important information about the beliefs of the Cycladic civilization. Archaeologists have found it in an important public building from the time, a marble figure in the shape of a woman, an alabaster vase and two high-necked vessels made of marble among other things, all of them from the beginning of the Cycladic civilization.
Slavic mythology defines the set of religious beliefs and ritual practices of the Slavs before the formal Christianization of their elites, which occurred throughout the 8th and 13th centuries.This mythology is believed to have developed throughout 3,000 years, and it is even thought that many of these beliefs date back to the Neolithic or Mesolithic.
Ammosaurus fileTranslation: Sandy ground lizard Description: Herbivore, quadruped Order: Saurischia Suborder: SauropodomorphaInfraorder: ProsauropodaFamily: PlateosauridaeHeight: 1.8 metersLength: 4.3 metersWeight: Period: Early JurassicOrder: SaurischiaSuborder: SauropodomorphaInfraid: ProsauropodaFamily: PlateosauridaeHeight: 1.8 metersLength: 4.3 metersWeight: Period: Early JurassicOrder: SaurischiaSuborder: SauropodomorphaInfraid: ProsauropodaFamily: PlateosauridaeHeight: 1.8 metersLength: 4.3 metersWeight: Period: Early Jurassic small, a long neck and a large body.
Andesaurus file Translation: Lizard of the Andes Description: herbivore, quadruped Order: Saurischia Suborder: Sauropodomorpha Infraorder: Sauropoda Family: Titanosauridae Height: 6 meters Length: 18 meters Weight: 7,000 kilos Period: Cretaceous, middle-legged Andesaurus Cactus Andesaurus much discovered in Argentina, the Middle-legged Andesaurus.
A jewel of the Community of Madrid is Aranjuez, about 50 kilometers south of the capital of Spain, which acquired the latest of the Heritage declarations in Madrid by Unesco, after Alcalá de Henares and El Escorial. It arrived in 2001, when the art and nature of its environment earned it to be considered as a World Heritage Cultural Landscape.
Although the silver work carried out by the Phoenicians is known, never before has a complete workshop been excavated. The authors of this finding are researchers from the universities of Alicante and Murcia, and the Archaeological Museum of Guardamar del Segura (Alicante). The results have just been published in the journal Complutum, edited by the Complutense University of Madrid.
During medieval times in Europe, illuminated manuscripts were works created for use by members of religious institutions and the nobility. Generally, these texts are characterized by being accompanied by borders, miniatures and embellished capital letters, in some cases, with luxurious paints and pigments such as gold and silver foil or ultramarine.
A study published today in the journal Scientific Reports on the skeletal remains found in the Dushan Cave in Linfeng, southern China, reveals surprising dental characteristics for an Upper Paleolithic population, according to co-authors María Martinón Torres and José María Bermúdez de Castro, from the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH), to find these characters with high frequency it is necessary to go back to the first representatives of the genus Homo and even to Australopithecus.
