The Mayan remains comprise more than 160 fragments of sculptures found in the Archaeological Park of Cihuatan, in central El Salvador. "The findings represent five or six feline sculptures," said the Secretary of Culture. The fragments found were in a structure in front of the wall of the Cihuatan ceremony center, a site of Mayan origin 36 kilometers from Aguilares, a city north of San Salvador.
Long ago, I saw a Nazi propaganda caricature showing a headless Churchill serving his own severed head on a plate, the joke being that he foolishly claimed the Germans would be unable to take Crete…
Owing to the region’s rich volcanic soils and strategic location, Náhuatl-speaking Indians once developed a complex civilization in Puebla; today, many monumental ruins can be found throughout the state. Puebla is also the home of Mole Poblano, a traditional Mexican dish. Today, automotive and textile production are Puebla’s main manufacturing industries.
Did Perestroika Cause the Fall of the Soviet Union?Just six years after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power as General Secretary of the Communist Party and introduced reforms, the Soviet Union collapsed and newly formed independent nations arose from the ashes. What went wrong? In 1985, even many of the most conservative hardliners .
In the Wikipedia article on the Battle of Krasnoi: Having lost contact with Kutuzov during the previous two weeks, Napoleon incorrectly believed that the Russian army must have been as devastated…
During the routine archaeological investigation of the Ancient Egypt Leather Goods Project (AELP) led by Salima Ikram, professor of Egyptology at the American University of Cairo, and André Veldmeijer, head of the Egyptology section at the Dutch Flemish Institute in Cairo , the group discovered a collection of 300 skin fragments from an old Egyptian chariot in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Gibraltar, is an area at the north-west end of the Rock of Gibraltar. By the 19th century Gibraltar had become Britain's principal dockyard and naval base in the western Mediterranean.
