The chilling sound of the Ehecachichtli, the “Aztec whistle of death”
The native populations ofCentral America (like the Aztecs hey Maya) had a great tradition linked to the creation of whistles ...
In Ancient Egypt they used psychotropic substances in rituals: discovered in a 2000 year old vase
Recent analyses, carried out by a research group from the University of Trieste led by Henry Greekon a vase ofancient ...
Do you say hammock or hammock? 10 Italian words that we almost certainly pronounce wrong
There Italian languagedespite being phonetically regular (it is pronounced “as it is written”, although with exceptions), has some words whose ...
Why is “Black Friday” called that and what are the origins of “Black Friday”?
The Black Friday (literally “Black Friday”) falls every year on the day following the feast of Thanksgiving in the United ...
The figure spotted in the Pacific last January is not Amelia Earhart’s plane: that’s what it was
The image captured by a sonar at 5 thousand meters deep in the Pacific that we saw in all the ...
Ada Lovelace, the first programmer in history: who she was and what she invented
Augusta Ada Byron, known to most by her married name, Ada Lovelace, she was a British mathematician, but above all ...
The true story of the Battle of Thermopylae and Leonidas’ 300 Spartans against the Persians
There Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC it was one of the moments in Greek history that more than any ...
November 25, World Day against Violence against Women: ISTAT and CNR data for 2024
Today, November 25, 2024like every year, is the World Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The Day was ...
The oldest alphabetic writing ever identified discovered in Syria: why it is important
A group of archaeologists from the Johns Hopkins University made a discovery that could rewrite the story of the origins ...
Cargo plane crashes into a building near Vilnius airport in Lithuania: causes still unknown
Today, at 5:28 (in Italy 4:51), a cargo plane Boeing 737 DHL coming from Leipzig yes crashed against a two-storey ...
