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1 day ago · Here's what the original, un-enhanced world's oldest picture looks like today: Maksim 36. This is the Speyer wine bottle, the oldest known bottle of wine on Earth: Immanuel Giel
4 days ago · Three of the oldest known stars in the universe were found in the Milky Way’s main galactic disk. They likely formed billions of years ago when the very first galaxies were taking shape soon ...
2 days ago · The first known animated feature film was El Apóstol by Quirino Cristiani, released on 9 November 1917 in Argentina. This successful 70-minute satire utilized a cardboard cutout technique, reportedly with 58,000 frames at 14 frames per second.
5 days ago · Stone Age, prehistoric cultural stage, or level of human development, characterized by the creation and use of stone tools, the oldest known of which date to some 3.3 million years ago. The Stone Age is usually divided into three separate periods: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic.
- The Stone Age was the prehistoric cultural stage, or level of human development, that was characterized by the creation and use of stone tools. It...
- The Stone Age is divided into three separate periods, namely the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age), Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), and Neolithic (New Sto...
- The beginning of the Stone Age coincides with the discovery of the oldest known stone tools, which have been dated to some 3.3 million years ago.
- Humans created four types of tools during the Stone Age: pebble tools; bifacial tools, or hand-axes; flake tools; and blade tools.
1 day ago · 1907 - Katsudō Shashin, the oldest known work of animation from Japan. 1908 – Fantasmagorie , considered by animation historians as the world's first cartoon, is released. 1909 – To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly
1 day ago · DISCOVERY. In March 1965, Carlos “Botong” Francisco, a noted muralist and a National Artist reported to the National Museum the existence of a rockshelter located in the hills near the boundary between Binangonan and Angono, province of Rizal. The rock-wall was reportedly incised with drawings.
2 days ago · Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Over the course of its history, cuneiform was adapted to write a number of languages in addition to Sumerian.
