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The incredible adventure of the rebel Lope de Aguirre

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Portrait of Lope de Aguirre

History is full of characters who are called “minor”, which means that they did not achieve glory or power. Others, however, are described as bloodthirsty and terrible, while true tyrants are often remembered as just men. This is so because whoever has control of the media distorts the truth as he pleases, in order to perpetuate his name as that of a righteous man. Frequently, those who fought for the independence of a people, but failed in their attempt, are described as a murderer or a tyrant. The Basque Lope de Aguirre , who was born in Oñate in 1518, into a family of noblemen who had fallen into disgrace, was one of the most macabre...

Gigantic Velociraptor footprints found in China

Discovered footprints of a 5-meter-long predatory dinosaur, challenging what was previously known about the Velociraptor's size range.

Gigantic Velociraptor footprints found in China

The footprints were found in Fujian province, south-east China, by an international team of researchers together with paleontologist Dr. Anthony Romilio of the University of Queensland's Dinosaur Lab who provided a detailed analysis. “When people think of predatory dinosaurs, they most likely think of the ones from the Jurassic Park films: aggressive, muscular, human-sized hunters,” Dr. Romilio said. “But these footprints were left by a much more slender and intelligent group of the Velociraptor family known as the Troodontidae, which emerged in the Late Jurassic about 95 million years ago.“ This raptor was approximately 5 meters long...

New and bizarre marine creature discovered off the coast of California

The mysterious sea creature could be in the midst of an evolutionary leap.

This photograph shows the back of a worm. The concentric ovals are body segments that have been flat

In 2007 bizarre-looking sea creature was spotted off the coast of California, mainly around Monterey Bay and the Channel Islands. Experts say the hazelnut-sized worm is so strange that didn't know how to classify it when it was first collected at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in 2001. The species was officially described in 2007 from eight individuals collected in the mesopelagic zone - the region between 200 and 1,000 meters - of Monterey Bay in California. It is believed these strange creatures may be in the midst of an evolutionary leap, slowly abandoning the seabed. “Chaethopterids are 'parchment' wo...

Ancient saber-tusked salmon with fang-like teeth

An extinct species of giant salmon called Oncorhynchus rastrosus had a pair of front teeth that protruded from the sides of its mouth like tusks, according to new research.

Oncorhynchus rastrosus: (A) CT model of the holotype; (B) holotype in anterior view of the skull, be

The Oncorhynchus rastrosus lived along the Pacific coast of North America (California, Oregon and Washington) between 11 and 5 million years ago. This extinct species was first described in the 1970s from fossils found in the freshwater Gateway locality of the Madras Formation, near the town of Gateway, Jefferson County, Oregon. The fish is estimated to reached a length of 2.4 to 2.7 meters and a weight of nearly 177 kg making it the largest member of the Salmonidae family never existed. This species migrated from the Pacific Ocean to inland rivers to spawn, as salmon do today. Furthermore, it was a planktontivore, thanks to numerous gill...

The cyclopean walls of Ollantaytambo

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The cyclopean walls of Ollantaytambo

Ollantaytambo is a town located about 90 kilometers from Cusco, near the Vilcanota River, which, further down, is called the Urubamba River. The town is located 2750 meters above sea level. Shortly after its modern part, there is the archaeological center, located on the side of the mountain. According to toponymy, the word Ollantaytambo is made up of two parts: Ollantay derives from the Aymara and means “to observe, to look from above,” while the word “tambo” means “lodge or place of rest” in Quechua. Therefore, the name Ollantaytambo can be translated as “resting place where you can see and observe from above.” Traditional archeology pl...

The Mediterranean antediluvian civilization

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The Mediterranean antediluvian civilization

The glacial period now called Wisconsin-Würm lasted from 110 to 10 millennia BC. Sea levels were lower worldwide than they are today, since enormous amounts of water were concentrated in the Arctic polar cap that covered much of Europe, northern Asia and much of northern America. Some estimates suggest that sea levels were 150-200 meters lower than today. This situation favored maritime exchanges between the Mediterranean and the other inhabited parts of the world, such as the Middle and Far East and South America. During the last antediluvian period (from 30 to 10 millennia BC), the centers of knowledge of the ancient world were substant...

The greatness of Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztecs

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The greatness of Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztecs

On November 8, 1519, a group of Spanish conquistadors, led by Hernán Cortés, arrived in the Valley of Mexico. In the distance you could see Lake Texcoco and several towns that arose on its shores: Mixquic, Iztapalapa, Huitzilopochco, Coyoacán, Tlacopán and Texcoco. In the center of the lake, full of canoes, they saw, on a vast island crossed by canals, a great city: it was the capital of the kingdom of the Aztecs, Tenochtitlán . Below is a comment by the conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo, extracted from his book True History of the Conquest of New Spain : Seeing so many cities and towns built on the water, and other towns on dry land,...

Santa María la Antigua del Darién

Santa María la Antigua del Darién, the first city founded by Europeans on the American mainland

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Santa María la Antigua del Darién

The fate of cities is, sometimes, very curious. Some cities prosper, mainly thanks to their advantageous geographical location or because trade flows favor them: Others, however, go into decline and are abandoned, only to fall completely into oblivion, without remaining at all in the memory of successive generations. One of the most important Spanish adventurers of the 16 th century was Vasco Núñez de Balboa, who had the merit of reaching the Pacific Ocean first, thus demonstrating that the American mainland was separate from the Asian mainland. However, Balboa was also the founder and mayor of the first city built by Europeans on the Ame...

Founding of Panama, oldest city built by Europeans on the Pacific's coast

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Founding of Panama, oldest city built by Europeans on the Pacific's coast

The process of exploration and colonization by Europeans in the lands of the New World, later called America, had as its determining date the discovery of the South Sea (later called the Pacific Ocean). This discovery by the Spanish adventurer Vasco Núñez de Balboa occurred in September 1513. Although the Italian navigator Américo Vespucio had already sensed that the lands of the New World were separated from the Asian continent, in 1513 the Spaniards verified the geography of the American continent on the ground, realizing that a thin strip of land (called Panama by the indigenous people) separated the North Sea (Atlantic Ocean) from the...

The mystery of the Bimini walls

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The mystery of the Bimini walls

The American medium Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) had predicted in 1900 that in 1968 or 1969, around the Bimini Islands (Bahamas), vestiges of ancient Atlantis would be found. Indeed, in 1969, two American writers, Robert Ferro and Michael Grumley, who had long been interested in paranormal phenomena, began underwater exploration of the seabed located almost a mile off the western coast of North Bimini. Their guide had informed them that strange submerged rocks had been seen lined up in the area, as if they were a kind of wall or even as if they were part of an archaic street. After several dives, Ferro and Grumley said they found, 5 to 10 mete...

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The incredible adventure of the rebel Lope de Aguirre

The incredible adventure of the rebel Lope de Aguirre

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Gigantic Velociraptor footprints found in China

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New and bizarre marine creature discovered off the coast of California

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Ancient saber-tusked salmon with fang-like teeth

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The cyclopean walls of Ollantaytambo

The cyclopean walls of Ollantaytambo

@lostcivilizations • 7 hours ago

The Mediterranean antediluvian civilization

The Mediterranean antediluvian civilization

@lostcivilizations • 7 hours ago

The greatness of Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztecs

The greatness of Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztecs

@lostcivilizations • 7 hours ago

Santa María la Antigua del Darién

Santa María la Antigua del Darién

@lostcivilizations • 7 hours ago

Founding of Panama, oldest city built by Europeans on the Pacific's coast

Founding of Panama, oldest city built by Europeans on the Pacific's coast

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The mystery of the Bimini walls

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