Google, Rome, and Empire. 2500 years ago, Europe was a filthy mess of dirt roads, battered and cracked by hooves in the summer and rutted by rude wheels in the winter.
To travel from the British isles to the tip of the Apennine peninsula would have been the work of months — and messy and rough work at that. Around 450 BC, the Roman Twelve Tables specified (among many other things) the dimensions of roads, and methods borrowed from the Carthaginians standardized their construction to some extent. Mere centuries later, an unprecedented network of trade and communication had been established, some parts of which are still in use today. Amazon hides an ancient urban landscape - environment - 29 Augus. It could be a case of history repeating itself in the jungles of South America.
Huge swathes of the Western Amazon were cleared 600 years ago, though back then it wasn't for logging, it was to make way for an urban network of towns, villages and hamlets. For the past few decades archaeologists have been uncovering urban remains that date back to the 13th century - long before European settlers had sailed across the Atlantic and discovered the "New World". This means that decent chunks - some 20,000 square kilometres - of the Western Amazon forest is not, strictly speaking, what could be called "virgin" forest. It is what took over after local cultures were wiped out by European settlers and imported diseases and their towns and villages were left untended. "In 1993, I went to live with the Kuikuro people," says Michael Heckenberger of the University of Florida.
Town planning Each of these "towns" had its own central plaza and was protected by an earthen wall. Culture of Old Europe Is Uncloaked in an Exhibit at N.Y.U. - NYT. Remnants of ancient giant river reveals how Britain became cut o. By Claire Bates Updated: 15:56 GMT, 30 November 2009 A prehistoric 'super-river' is the reason why Britain became an island and was cut off from Europe.
An Anglo-French study has revealed that long before the English Channel there was a giant river which ran south from an area of the North Sea. Previous research found that 500,000 years ago a range of low hills connected Britain to Europe between the Weald in South-East England and Artois in northern France. Enlarge. Francisco de Orellana. Francisco de Orellana (1511, Trujillo, Spain – November 1546, Amazon River) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador.
He completed the first known navigation of the entire length of the Amazon River, which initially was named "Rio de Orellana. " He also founded the city of Guayaquil in what is now Ecuador. Background[edit] He was a Spanish adventurer (1511–47) who accomplished the first descent of the River Amazon. Born at Trujillo (various birth dates, ranging from 1490 to 1511, are still quoted by biographers), Orellana was a close friend, and possibly a relative of Francisco Pizarro, the Trujillo-born conquistador of Peru (cousin, according to some historians). First exploration of the Amazon River[edit] In 1540 Gonzalo Pizarro arrived in Quito as governor and was charged by Francisco Pizarro with an expedition to locate the "Land of Cinnamon", thought to be somewhere to the east.
Second voyage and its preparation[edit] Meaning[edit] Places named after Orellana[edit] Further reading[edit] Amazon hides an ancient urban landscape - environment - 29 Augus. It could be a case of history repeating itself in the jungles of South America.
Huge swathes of the Western Amazon were cleared 600 years ago, though back then it wasn't for logging, it was to make way for an urban network of towns, villages and hamlets. For the past few decades archaeologists have been uncovering urban remains that date back to the 13th century - long before European settlers had sailed across the Atlantic and discovered the "New World". This means that decent chunks - some 20,000 square kilometres - of the Western Amazon forest is not, strictly speaking, what could be called "virgin" forest. It is what took over after local cultures were wiped out by European settlers and imported diseases and their towns and villages were left untended. Native Americans visited Europe 1000 years ago.
Home. History Buff - The Blog of Michelle Moran. Scientists to measure quake effect on Acropolis By Elena Becatoros ATHENS, Greece – For thousands of years the Acropolis has withstood earthquakes, weathered storms and endured temperature extremes, from scorching summers to winter snow.
Now scientists are drawing on the latest technology to install a system that will record just how much nature is affecting the 2,500-year-old site. Read the rest here. # Posted by Michelle Moran @ | Friday, October 31, 2008 Limestone altar Discovered at Dalheim Roman Dig Dalheim Dig discovery Following previous archaelogical discoveries at the Dalheim dig another artefact has been discovered. Read the rest here. # Posted by Michelle Moran @ | Friday, October 31, 2008 Tuataras Breeding Again on Mainland New Zealand AP/Karori Sanctuary: An adult tuatara basking on a tree stump at the Karori Sanctuary near Wellington, New Zealand. Read the rest on FoxNews.
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