Kültürel - Culture

James Owen for National Geographic News June 24, 2009 A Found with The bone-flute pieces were found in 2008 at Hohle Fels, a With five finger holes and a Flute fragments found earlier at the nearby site of Geissenklösterle have been dated to around 35,000 years ago. The newfound flutes, though, "date to the very period of settlement in the region by modern humans ... about 40,000 years ago," Conar

Experts have The mosaic, which measures 1.5 meters by 1 meter, was last seen by Swiss architect Gaspare Fossati, who Experts were surprised to see that the mosaic, believed to Hagia Sophia, built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian between A.D. 532 and 537, was originally a During the conversion process, the Ottomans covered the mosaics with plaster instead of The uncovered mosaic is located in the

Animals may use sounds to communicate but talking is uniquely human. Yet  Talking is something most people do with such ease. We Yet a complex sequence of thoughts, movements and actions lie behind each and every word we utter. And as adults, we speak 15,000 words every day. So where does language come from, how did this ability One scientist trying to unlock the secret of speech is Professor Sim

The death of language? By Tom Colls An estimated 7,000 languages are being spoken around the world. But that number is expected to shrink In 1992 a prominent US linguist stunned the academic world by predicting that by the year 2100, 90% of the world's languages would have ceased to exist. Far from inspiring the world to act, the issue is still on the margins, according to prominent French linguis