History

The Sumer based their mathematical system on the number 60. As early as 3000 B.C., it was common to use multiplication, division, and exponentiation.

Masada was expanded by Herod the Great around 37 BC. - The fortress was one of his greatest construction successes.

Axum was a well-organized center where education flourished.

A group of 104 settlers set on three ships–Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery–in December 1606.

One of the churches in ancient Aksum, Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, is said to have the Ark of the Covenant in its possession. However, the shrine is guarded by a single guardian (a monk) and no one is allowed inside, not even the rulers of Ethiopia or the heads of the Ethiopian church.

The statue of Princess Pocahontas was placed on Jamestown Island in 1922.

Igor Kurchatov became the scientific director of the Soviet scientific program.

Some 5000 people in the first 72 hours were irradiated with doses ranging from 460 to nearly 1000 mSv.

The participants of the expedition had photographic equipment and kept diaries.

The story of the Trojan War, one of the most famous conflicts in world history, is one of the most important elements of Western culture.