by sagesgroup | May 3, 2023 | Entertainment, Entertainment News, Gladiator 2, History, homepage, hp-latest, Movies, Ridley Scott
Gladiator was a monumental action movie entrenched in ancient history. While Russell Crowe’s Maximus was created for the film, Emperor Commodus and his daughter Lucilla actually existed, although their characters were only very loose adaptations of the historical...by sagesgroup | Mar 18, 2023 | Health, History, homepage, hp-latest, Medicine, Science
The Tibetan Plateau, also known as the “roof of the world” and Earth’s Third Pole, is not exactly the easiest place to eke out a living. The high-altitude plain sits more than 13,000 feet above sea level, making each breath there contain a third less oxygen than the...by sagesgroup | Mar 16, 2023 | History, homepage, hp-latest, Science
Several thousand years before the pyramids rose over ancient Egypt, people living on the Arabian Peninsula constructed a different kind of marvel. Called a mustatil, it was drastically different than a pyramid, arranged in a 2-dimensional rectangle and characterized...by sagesgroup | Mar 4, 2023 | History, homepage, hp-latest, Science
As long as there have been humans, horses haven’t been far behind. Whether they’re sketched on the stone walls of the Caves of Lascaux or romping across the screens of old westerns, it’s easy to forget there was a time before horses were a part of the human story....by sagesgroup | Feb 22, 2023 | Environment, History, homepage, Science
Whether its Stonehenge, the pyramids, or a myriad of other ancient places, we’ve long been fascinated by impressive monuments from the distant past. But more often than not, the stories of the people who built these ancient marvels are lost to the mists of time. It’s...by sagesgroup | Jan 30, 2023 | Biology, DNA, Genetics, History, knowable-magazine, Science, Syndicated, technology
The 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine has brought fresh attention to paleogenomics, the sequencing of DNA of ancient specimens. Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo won the coveted prize “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human...