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Eva Poteaca | Live the World November 23, 2022 If you ever find yourself in the south-west of  Romania , where the  Carpathian Mountains  meet the  Danube River  I strongly advise you to make a little detour to see  Decebalus , the last Dacian king, immortalized as a 40 meter high rock sculpture. Quick history lesson As I’m sure many of you already know, the country we now call  Romania  has its origin in the Dacian people who lived on these lands in Roman times. The  Danube River  was a natural border to the  Roman Empire  which protected the Dacians from getting conquered for a while until the Romans built a bridge. The last Dacian king was called *Decebalus *and it is said that he fought bravely against the bigger and stronger army of the Roman Empire, but was defeated in the end and Dacia became a Roman province. The Romanian people are actually born from this Roman – Dacian synthesis. The face of Decebalus The sculpture wa...

   HISTORY & CULTURE Finally, we can put a face on a Denisovan. The "Dragon Man" skull was discovered in Harbin, China in 1933 by a local laborer, but remained hidden away until 2018. A new analysis now finds its very likely to be a Denisovan. Photograph by Xijun Ni By Tim Vernimmen June 18, 2025 In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers  stirred up some controversy  by suggesting that an unusual skull unearthed in northeastern China belonged to a previously unknown species they thereby officially described as  Homo  longi , nicknamed “Dragon Man.” (Both names were inspired by the Long Jiang Dragon River region where it was found.) Soon afterwards, the team was contacted by paleogeneticist  Qiaomei Fu  of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, who asked if she could try and get DNA from the skull.   Back in 2010, she’d been the first to investigate the DNA from a tiny finger bone fo...

By Caroll Viana - June 16, 2025 The National Library of  Colombia  has inaugurated the largest exhibition on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, featuring more than 450 manuscripts.  Credit:  Guadalajara Film Festival  / CC BY 2.0 The National Library of Colombia has inaugurated “Everything Is Known: The Story of Gabo’s Creation”, the most extensive and revealing exhibition ever dedicated to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, master of magical realism and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. For the first time in his home country, an exhibition has been mounted that brings together free to the public more than 450 items, including manuscripts, personal belongings, and documents. These materials were recovered from Garcia Marquez’s archive at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, as well as from national and international collections. ‘Everything Is Known: The Story of Gabo’s Creation’, the largest exhibition on Gabriel Garcia Marquez The exhibit opened its do...