Meet the new Giant Pumpkin world record holder
Fall is a special season, abundance of mushrooms, pumpkins, chesnuts… in the harvest season. And a lot of contests are hold around the world. In Ludwigsburg, (Germany) took place the European Championship of Giant Pumpkins, and the world record was broken by a specimen from Belgium. The pumpkin, weighed 1.190,5 kg (2,623 pounds) and was grown by Mathias Willemijns. In North America, last year a pumpkin weighing 2,145 pounds broke the record in this territories, and was grown by Gene McMullen. According to the specialists, the secret to grow this giant pumpkins is genetics in first place, and also patience and care. You need good sun, warmth, fertilizer and water. The second heaviest pumpkin registered was grown by Beni Meier from Switzerland and was a 2,323 pounds specimen.
The 45,500-year-old painting of a wild boar is the oldest figurative work of art in the world
The place where this cave painting has been found, discovered by archaeologist Adam Brumm and a team of scientists from Griffith University, is part of a limestone karst valley that had remained unexplored until 2017, although it is very close to Makassar, the largest and most populous city in the region. The warthog, painted with mineral pigments in red, replaced as the oldest work of art a hunting scene from 43,900 years ago, also discovered by Brumm and his team in 2019 in a neighboring cave on the same island. The article reveals that, near the animal, two other less complete pigs are drawn that seem to face each other. “These new discoveries add weight to the view that the earliest modern traditions of rock art probably did not emerge in Ice Age Europe, as was long believed, but rather sometime earlier outside of this area, perhaps in somewhere in…
Elephanta caves, an exclusive combination of awful rock art and artistic sculpture creation dedicated to the Hindu lord Shiva
First of all, Must need to point out that, it’s not only caves, but it is an island located in the Arabian Sea and consider under western India. Island is also known as Gharapuri (which means the city of Caves). Visitors can travel that island only by boarding the ferry from Gateway of India in Mumbai. It will take almost an hour to reach the island by ferry. This island is full with dense forest and plentiful ancient archaeological structures, which is the evidence of its rich cultural past. • Archaeological Survey of India and UNESCO together has clarified that, the site was since ancient times. Its sculptures and temples were constructed somewhere between the 5th to 6th century AD. Island has two separate hills, eastern hills (stupa Hills) and western hills (Canon hills). Based on that caves also divided into two groups. • The First group has five caves…
Toothbrush
Before the invention of the brush a wide variety of toothbrushes had been used. These ancient techniques have been verified by the different excavations that have been carried out in different parts of the world and to find certain utensils that were previously used. The objects that could be recovered were chew sticks, tree branches, bird feathers, animal bones and porcupine spines. The first records of dental hygiene date from around 3000 BC. C. In the Egyptian tombs have been twigs in the form of pencil, which had at one end a soft and fibrous touch to carry out a dental cleaning. These first rudimentary utensils used for dental care were called “sticks or chewing sticks,” and were made from tree twigs, biting one end to soften. The ends of these rods were modeled in the form of filaments so that they were suitable for the gums, having more or…
Doggerland
Doggerland is the name given by archaeologists and geologists to an ancient mass of land south of the North Sea, which connected the island of Britain to the European continent during and after the last Ice Age. It remained emerged until 6500 or 6200 BC. C., although little by little it was swallowed by the rise of the level of the sea. Geological studies have suggested that Doggerland was a large area of dry land stretching from the east coast of Britain and off the current coast of the Netherlands to the west coast of Germany and Denmark, it was probably a habitat. rich with human settlements in the Mesolithic period. The archaeological potential of the area was raised in the early twentieth century, but interest intensified in 1931, when a trawler fishing between the sandbanks and basements of the Leman and Ower banks east of The Wash brought to…
The Unconquered Peak
Due to its religious significance, Mount Kailash has remained unclimbed till date. In 1926, Hugh Ruttledge while studying it, estimated that the north face of Kailash Mountain was about 6000 feet. He described it as “Utterly Unclimbable. ” Colonel R. C. Wilson, who was on the other side of the mountain observed that the Southern face of Kailash was relatively easy to climb. But, when he was about to start the ascent, the region was hit with heavy snowfall making it impossible to continue the ascent. The Garpons of Ngari region believe that, ‘Only a man who is entirely free of sins can climb Kailash. He would not even have to scale the shear walls, but will be able to turn himself into a bird and fly to the summit. In the 1980’s, Reinhold Messner, the very famous mountaineer with numerous records to his name was actually given the opportunity…
Taiga, the world’s largest forest
Taiga is a 15 million square km polar forest It draws a wide band at the south of the tundra of arctic regions around the polar circle. It is continuous over 12,000 km including about 7,000km in Eurasia and 5,000 km in North America It absorbs 20% of the world’s carbon emissions It is the world’s first forest in area before the Amazon rainforest which covers 5.5 million square km This forest is therefore one of the most important lungs on the planet in the same way as the Amazon It is also called: Boreal Forest It is a dense forest of conifers and hardwoods It is home to many animal species such as wolves, brown bears, grizzly bears, reindeers, caribous and elks. Many birds live in these trees due to abundant insect which represents their main food. It is one of the main terrestrial biomes It alone occupies 10%…