A museum highlighting the traditional olive harvesting techniques of Crete opened alongside the tree. Crete was once the seat of the Minoan civilization, which flourished in antiquity from its olive oil trade. Related article15 of nature's most awesome, must-see shows WILD HERB: Approximately 3,0...
Though many people typically associate mummies with Egypt, the oldest-known civilization to partake in mummification practices lived in South America. The Chinchorro culture created the world's oldest mummies, reportedly preceding Egyptians by 2,000 years. Scientists are uncertain why the Chinchorr...
That’s roughly 2,000 years before the ancient Egyptians. Yet, while the Egyptians were a complex civilization mummifying elite pharaohs, the Chinchorro were pre-ceramic hunter-gatherers with a more egalitarian approach to honoring the dead. Although little-known even inside Chile, the country hop...
000 years to the Indus Valley civilization, where people often used the stone mortar and pestle to finely grind spices such as fennel, mustard, cumin, and others.
This piece of cloth is from the Stone Age. For 60 years, academics have debated whether it is made of wool or linen. So what is it really made of? The answer will surprise you. Credit: Antoinette Rast-Eicher, University of Bern
and Flinders University surveyed for and located the shipwreck site of the barkSouth Australian. Lost at Rosetta Harbor (at the western end of modern-day Encounter Bay) in December 1837,South Australianis South Australia’s oldest documented shipwreck. Its significance also derives from its use as...
D.Enjoy the modern civilization.【2】Why is Abu Dhabi so wealthyA.For the amount of oil. B.For its special location.C.For the tourist destinations. D.For its personalized services.【3】On which tour can you experience all adventurous activityA.Sahara Desert. B.Grand Morocco.C.Deluxe Dubai...
Nodding to Marseille’s position as a major node on the Mediterranean, the Mucem (short for Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean) opened in 2013 as the first museum solely dedicated to this crucible of civilization and cross-cultural exchanges, treated through a multidisciplinary...
As temperatures dropped, ice sheets advanced and disaster set in. During the coldest months, temperatures plunged to 10-15 degreesCelsius. Some bands of hunter-gatherers died out, others moved south, and some sought refuge in forests. Big game was overhunted. ...
ancient trees has taken her across the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Some of her subjects grow in isolation, on remote mountainsides, private estates, or nature preserves; others maintain a proud, though often precarious, existence in the midst of civ...