Human ancestors were almost extinct 900,000 years ago

Human ancestors were almost extinct 900,000 years ago

Before growing to more than 8 billion people as of early September 2023, the human population nearly perished some 900,000 years......

Why did ancient Greeks compete naked at Olympic Games?

Why did ancient Greeks compete naked at Olympic Games?

It is hard to imagine participants in the Olympic Games or other sporting events competing in the nude today. That would defy the......

Resident of Russia Far East tried to set Lenin's Mausoleum on fire with Molotov ...

Resident of Russia Far East tried to set Lenin's Mausoleum on fire with Molotov ...

The pyramid-shaped structure where the body of Vladimir Ulyanov alias Lenin, the Bolshevik leader and first head of the Soviet......

Russian church is set to waste its most precious Orthodox relic

Russian church is set to waste its most precious Orthodox relic

Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Tretyakov Gallery Museum in Moscow to transmit a rare icon to the Russian......

Archaeologists discover ancient Maya city in Mexican jungle

Archaeologists discover ancient Maya city in Mexican jungle

The ruins of a previously unknown city of the Maya culture were found in late June 2023 by a team of archeologists deep inside......

British WWII Hurricane planes unearthed outside Kyiv

British WWII Hurricane planes unearthed outside Kyiv

The remains of eight British Hawker Hurricane fighter planes from World War Two have been discovered in a forest soil south of......

Why did our ancestors eat each other 1.45 million years ago?

Why did our ancestors eat each other 1.45 million years ago?

A hominin tibia exhibited in Kenya’s Nairobi National Museum since being discovered in the Turkana region in 1970 by famous......

Prigozhin’s mutiny is just the first phase of power change in Russia

Prigozhin’s mutiny is just the first phase of power change in Russia

This article is a News-Cafe.eu translation, in adapted version, of an analysis published by the independent outlet NovayaGazeta,......

New clues why Neanderthals lost to modern humans

New clues why Neanderthals lost to modern humans

Contrary to widespread beliefs that the prehistoric rivals of our direct ancestors were brainless or weaker brutes, science has......

41 years ago, in June, a democracy beat an authoritarian aggressor

41 years ago, in June, a democracy beat an authoritarian aggressor

In April 1982, Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands and two smaller islets under the United Kingdom’s......

A native of Ukraine took over the supreme post in the Soviet Union 45 years ago

A native of Ukraine took over the supreme post in the Soviet Union 45 years ago

On 16 June 1977, Leonid Brezhnev, a political commissar turned politician who got promoted to the top of the administrative and......

Roman invasion of Britain began from modern-day Netherlands

Roman invasion of Britain began from modern-day Netherlands

In late 2001, archaeologists discovered the ruins of an ancient fortress and items from the arsenal of Roman legionaries. The......