Early Humans Probably Didn’t Evolve from a Single Population in Africa Scientists are widely suggestion that modern human beings evolved from a single population of Homo sapiens in today’s Morocco some 300,000 years ago. However, a recent report now shows that we are rewrite the very foundations of our evolution. Research published on 11 July in Trends in Ecology & Evolution […]
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Burials of Africans slaves found at the old rubbish dump in Portugal Portuguese explorers like Henry the Navigator began sailing to Africa, bringing back both goods and enslaved people at the beginning of the 15th century. A recent archaeological studies performed in Lagos, Portugal of more than 150 skeletons dumped, indicates that many of the enslaved Africans have not given proper burials […]
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Humpback Whale Carcass Mysteriously Discovered In The Amazon Jungle After finding a dead humpback whale in the Amazon rainforest, Brazilian wildlife experts were baffled. In the jungle undergrowth on the island of Marajo, on the mouth of the Amazon River, was found the 10-ton mammal. Although scientists presume that the enormous creature had been hurled to shore during a storm, they […]
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4000 Years Ago in Egypt, Dozens of Men Who Died Of Terrible Wounds Were Mummified and Entombed Together in the Cliffs Near Luxor In Egypt More than 4,000 years ago, dozens of men who died of terrible wounds were mummified and buried together in cliffs near Luxor. In ancient Egypt, mass burials were exceptionally rare, so why have these mummies all […]
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Scientists find evidence of fires built in Yucatán cave 10,000 years ago The oldest traces of charcoal ever discovered were found in a submerged of Yucatán Peninsula cenote. The first settlers in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula built bonfires over 10,000 years ago in a cave that is now flooded with water, according to new archeological evidence from burned charcoal samples. Organic samples […]
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‘Brazilian pink bird-eating tarantulas’ the size of dinner plates are on the loose One of the most recognizable arachnids on earth is the birdeater Goliath. Its impressive size allows it to prey on a variety of creatures, including birds, making it the biggest — and possibly the scariest — spider in the world. But there is more to this Goliath […]
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The Herero Genocide: Germany’s First Mass Murder While the horrors of the Holocaust are now universally known, there is far less awareness exists of the previous genocide that took place under German auspices, in what was then the German colony of South-West Africa. According to scholars, the first genocide in the 20th century, The German forces killed thousands of Nama’s […]
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Instagram Trophy Huntress Who Poses With Dead Bears Blasts Her Critics As ‘Uneducated’ A 23-year-old hunter who kills and then poses with brown bears has slammed the ‘uneducated hypocrites’ who eat meat but threaten her to shoot wild animals. Alexandra Tyutcheva is a hunting manager from Serpukhov, Russia, and has travelled up to 300 miles from home to track down […]
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AKTION T4 THE NAZI EUTHANASIA PROGRAMME THAT KILLED 300,000 Both before and during the Holocaust, the Nazi authorities carried out a massive but lesser-known program of targeted mass killing targeting some of the most vulnerable people under their control: the disabled. Starting as a euthanasia program that eliminated disabled infants and children deemed unfit to live and expand in time […]
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Traces of Roman engineering found in the ancient port town About two millennia ago, Lechaion, one of the ports of the ancient city of Corinth, occupied a special place on the map of southern Greece. It was a strategic point that was easily linked to a variety of significant trading routes that passed through the Mediterranean and led to Italy, Turkey […]
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