Stone Stories
When parts of today’s Sahara were underwater, giant fish and long-snouted crocodilians lived there
Fossil finds in Mali show „island gigantism“ and an era when sea level was 300 m higher than today
More than 100 new Nazca-geoglyphs depicting people and many different animals discovered in Peru
The land-lines dating from 100 BC to AD 300 were created by the Pre-Columbian culture in the mountainous area
Scientists find why eternal Nile has kept its path since humans remember
It is the Earth’s mantle movement that keeps the river on course / The river is 6 times older than previously thought
The fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago: mere concrete and thus of limited durability
In the closing months of 1989 just about all the citizens of the GDR gathered to march in protest and brought down the socialist regime
Tremendous fire at the Shuri Castle in Japan
The World Heritage site going back to the Ryuku kingdom has walls with stones composed in the Incan style known from ancient Latin America
In the past, pyrite (fool’s gold) may have triggered the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and climate change
Marum-scientist: During ice ages with lower sea-levels, the mineral was exposed to oxygen from the air which caused chemical weathering and CO2 release
Group behavior occurred already among the first animals as it helped them to survive environmental stress
An international team of researchers analyzed fossils of trilobites which lived about 480 million years ago
Early warning signals heralded fatal collapse of Krakatau volcano on December 22, 2018
GFZ Potsdam researchers reconstruct the flank collapse event that triggered a tsunami which killed 430 people
Menhirs and a burial cairn site excavated at the Massif Central in France
A long time ago, the stones had been knocked down maybe to make them invisible in the landscape
Capital of Islamic Culture 2019: Al-Quds (Jerusalem), Tunis, Badar Seri Begawan and Bissau
Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers is bestowing the title for the Arab Region, Asia and Africa
