To answer these questions, it is easiest to start with the amount of gold that humans have mined to date. The U.S. Geological ...

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Recognised as the oldest surviving cartographic depiction of the Holy Lands, the Madaba Mosaic Map was crafted during the reign of Emperor Justinian.

The List of World Heritage in Danger is designed to inform the international community of conditions which threaten the very characteristics for which a property was inscribed on the World Heritage ...

Author Dan Buettner worked for more than a decade to identify hot spots of longevity around the world. With the help ... of individuals over 100 years old, but also clusters of people who had ...

Quito, the capital of Ecuador, was founded in the 16th century on the ruins of an Inca city and stands at an altitude of 2,850 m. Despite the 1917 earthquake, the city has the best-preserved, least ...

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