In 1915, World War I was at the height. By this time, it became clear that the Russian imperial army lacked ammunition and weapons. The military industry of the Russian Empire could not satisfy the needs of the fighting army. In this situation, the representative of the military commission of the Senate of France Gaston […]

19th century was not just the age of the industrial revolution and dramatic political changes. It was also the time of mass migration.  Former peasants left their homes and moved to cites and other counters for better life. New technologies such as the steam engine made possible for thousands of people to move far from […]

Earlier this year, while flying over northern Botswana, Vanessa Hayes looked out over the Makgadikgadi Pans—giant salt flats that stretch for more than 6,000 square miles. They are the remnants of what was once Africa’s largest lake. Hayes could see traces of the lake’s shoreline from the air. She glimpsed massive fault lines running across its former bed—signs […]

An Indian monk who claims to be 124 years old left airport security staff in Dubai aghast when he presented his passport during a stopover. Swami Sivananda was en-route from Kolkata to London when murmurs spread of his age, after which photos spread on social media of the gentleman with various employees at Abu Dhabi […]

The Etruscans were a powerful clan with an alien tongue and strange customs. They emerged in what is now central Italy sometime around the 6th century BC.  And no one is more obsessed with the Etruscans than the Italians themselves. The Etruscans, who lived in Etruria, were known as Tyrrhenians by the Greeks. They were […]

An international research team led by scientists from McMaster University has unearthed new evidence in Greece proving that the island of Naxos was inhabited by Neanderthals and earlier humans at least 200,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years earlier than previously believed. The findings, published today in the journal Science Advances, are based on years […]