Did you know that the Koh-i-Noor weighted initially 793 carats?
The Koh-i-Noor diamond is set now in the crown of The Queen Mother.
It weighs 106.6 carats and is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world.
Continue reading “Koh-I-Noor , the cursed diamond. Quick Facts”What if I told you An iron-bladed dagger made from a meteorite was discovered in 1925 in the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb?
Continue reading “Tutankhamun’s iron dagger. Amazing Quick Facts”Did Neanderthals have better brain than Homo Sapiens Cro Magnon? Could be. Homo Neanderthal had a larger skull with 1600 cc brain and Homo Sapiens had a smaller brain on average 1400 cc of brain. What really matters for more abstract and sophisticated thinking is the surface of the cortex though. Neanderthals emerged as a specie about 800000 years ago. The oldest Neanderthal fossil is dated around 400000 years ago.
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