A team of archaeologists has discovered a 15th century anchor in the area of the Gulf of Mexico where the Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés sank his ships 500 years ago, although there is no evidence to link it to that episode yet, explained the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico.
On the initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Equality, since last April 6 small groups of interested people have been visiting the Maltravieso cave with the help of the technicians of the Junta de Extremadura, in total, during the first month of validity of this experience, 40 people, in groups of four, have already passed through the oldest cave art site in the world, as part of a temporary and experimental project aimed at checking the evolution of microbiological parameters, temperature and humidity inside the cavity to determine the eventual sustainability of the human presence in it.
Archaeologists discovered a new room named the Sphinx Room in Nero's Palace (also known as Emperor Nero's Domus Aurea, or the Golden Palace), built 2,000 years ago, and decorated with detailed frescoes. From the palace under a hill next to the Colosseum he came across an opening that led to a room covered with depictions of mythical creatures, including centaurs and the god Pan.
A report from the municipality of St. Pölten, Austria, indicates that during excavations in the city center, two fragments of Roman tombstones were found at the site, weighing almost 500 kg. The first fragment shows “reliefs that are particularly magnificent. In the text field where VINDILLIVS is read framed by two spiral fluted columns, you can see two birds with a garland ”, the report explains.
Barapasaurus fact sheet Translation: Long-legged reptile Description: Herbivore, quadruped Order: Saurischia Suborder: Sauropodomorpha Infraorder: Sauropoda Family: Vulcanodontidae Height: 7.6 meters Length: 18.3 meters Weight: Period: Early Jurassic The Barapasaurus are known from less than six individual parts of halves from halves of more than 300 specimens. India, but no skulls have yet been recovered.
On May 16, 1960, the 32-year-old American engineer Theodore Harold Maiman lit the first laser beam in history made with pink ruby crystal pumped by a flash lamp at the Hughes Research Laboratories in California (USA). later, George Lucas popularized this technology in fiction as the main weapon of the Jedi Knights in Star Wars.
On the occasion of International Museum Day, we share the program of activities to be carried out in the most important museums in Uruguay: National Museum of Anthropology Saturday 5/18 open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 11:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. . Guided tours of the archeology and ethnography exhibitions. Performance of the Choir of the Cultural Center of Spain.
The Cerro Blanco Volcanic Complex, located at the southern tip of the Andean plateau, erupted about 4,200 years ago. It was not just any eruptive episode, it was the largest eruption that occurred in the last 5,000 years in the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, the volume of ejected rock also places it among one of the largest eruptions that occurred during the Holocene (the last 11.
Galaxies without dark matter are impossible to understand in the current theory of galaxy formation, as their role is critical in producing the collapse of gas that forms stars. In 2018, a study published in the journal Nature announced the discovery of a galaxy that lacked dark matter, which had an extraordinary impact, occupying the front pages of scientific journals.
The Atapuerca Foundation participates tomorrow, Saturday, May 25, in the White Night, a free cultural manifestation open to all citizens in numerous spaces for public use, both closed and open, carrying out fire demonstrations, led by Álvaro Cantero, Zuriñe Sánchez and Cristian Micó, archaeological monitors of the Atapuerca Foundation, you will learn about various ways of producing fire in the same way as our ancestors did.
The use of the swastika by the Third Reich, being the Nazi emblem during World War II, makes us forget its true meaning, the one given by the Hindu religion at the time its four sacred texts, the "Vedas", were written. The term "swastika" comes from Hindi and means blessed form, also used as "very auspicious".
Summary of 'The Smartest Ladies of the 16th Century' Despite their long skirts and corsets, they conspired, signed treaties, pulled the strings of politics and the arts… They are the smartest ladies of the 16th century. Four queens of swords. The political background of the moment in which they lived was convulsed: internal struggles between the European powers, territorial interests, treaties and alliances with other ruling houses, marriages as perks in the prevailing politics, etc.
The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is a species of ursid that occupied much of Europe since the beginning of the Upper Pleistocene, about 100,000 years ago. Its disappearance, some 25,000 years ago, has been the subject of debate by the scientific community for decades.A study carried out on fossils found in the Cova del Toll site (Moià, Barcelona) - one of the sites with the largest number of remains recovered of this species - has revealed a unique feature of the feeding behavior of this animal: despite having a diet dominated by vegetables, when the hibernation period approached, it was capable of adopting very carnivorous eating habits.
Scientists from the University of Oviedo and CENIEH have developed a new method to find out the sex of human fossils. The results of the study have been published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Thanks to this study, it will be possible to obtain more data on the paleobiology of human populations of the past, and opens the possibility of using the same methodology to find out what the representatives were like. of the genus Homo of species different from ours.
“Pepita” was a girl barely two and a half years old when she died, possibly from a lung disease, in 300 BC. Today it is one of the oldest mummies in Mexico. Since 2002, when it was discovered by residents of the Altamira community, in the Sierra Gorda de Querétaro, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), with the support of other institutions, has done several studies and conservation treatments; It is currently part of the collection of mummified bodies that is exhibited in the El Carmen Museum.
The National Museum of Roman Art presents the exhibition «Dionysos-Baco. A God for humans. An exhibition, curated by Trinidad Nogales, director of the museum, that aims to publicize an exciting phenomenon that ran from Classical Greece to the Roman Empire and that united, in a kind of common manifestation, people from very distant places.
Behind the myth of the Bounty, Captain Cook, Herman Melville or Gauguin's paradisiacal experience in Tahiti, we discover a handful of women who lived their greatest experiences in the islands spread across the South Pacific more than 100 years ago. they were trapped in the galaxy of reefs and archipelagos strewn with stories of hustlers, explorers, adventurers and artists.
An article by the Paleoneurology group of the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH), coordinated by Emiliano Bruner, on the variations and differences in the parietal lobes of different cercopitecid species, has just been published in the American Journal of Primatology. known as the old world monkeys.
Bothriospondylus file Translation: Excavated vertebrae Also known as: Marmarospondylus Description: herbivore, quadruped Order: Saurischia Suborder: Sauropodomorpha Infringement: Sauropoda Family: Brachiosauridae Height: 10.7 meters Length: 20.1 meters Dinosaur Remains: Late period: 20.1 meters Sufficeus period: Late period: 20.1 meters The only known genus Esponrios a Suffius: Late period: 20.1 meters Suffidus periodus genus Spoonus fragmentaries discovered in Europe and other remains found in Madagascar.
Roulette has been a typical game of chance in casinos for centuries, although also, in the 21st century and with technological advances, it is possible to play roulette in online casinos as well as in traditional ones. However, what is the origin of casino roulette? Its name comes from the French term “roulette”, which translated into Spanish means “small wheel” or “little wheel”.
