Africa
20.11.24
Millions of pink flamingos
10-11-2024
"Tales of the Congo": a photo project that makes the heart ...
Africa, which looks at you through the eyes of the natives living in the valley of the Congo, — alive and real. Before its ...
01-11-2024
Laughter epidemic in Tanganyika in 1962. And it wasn't ...
In 1962, something strange happened in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) - students at one of the schools began to laugh for no reason. The ...
30-10-2024
Mistress of Africa Al-Kahina: The witch the Arabs feared
In the Islamic world, men reign supreme and their authority is unshakable. Therefore, the Arab chronicles, which describe the ...
28-10-2024
The last secret of the Great Alexander: where did two ...
By the age of 30, Alexander, the son of King Philip of Macedon, had become the ruler of a vast empire from Greece to India. Even ...
18-10-2024
Baboon Wars: Aggressive Monkeys Attack People in Cape Town
What to do when nature declares war on man? In Cape Town, residents live under siege from aggressive baboons who raid houses and ...
17-10-2024
Why do monkeys kill their young
Scientists have long noticed that male chimpanzees are prone to infanticide. For many years, all sorts of assumptions have been ...
15-10-2024
Charcoal portraits of hyperrealist Major Olajide
There are many excellent artists in the world, but not everyone has the gift of depicting the world realistically. An artist from ...
08-10-2024
A curious Barbarian had her nose torn off at the bazaar, or ...
The statue of Venus de Milo without hands is a symbol of the era of ancient Greece. The sculpture of a pharaoh without a nose is ...
05-10-2024
The murderous power of propaganda, or How "Thousand Hills ...
We have all heard that propaganda is a deadly weapon. At the same time, many believe that this is an exaggeration. But the history ...
05-10-2024
How did the lives of the Bushman Nkjau, which played a major ...
The future actor Nkjau was born in Namibia in the Bushman village Tsumkwe. He didn't know how old he is, didn't understand why we ...
04-10-2024
Bushmen — the last battle for the first people of South Africa
The rulers of the desert, the Bushmen are a small group of hunting tribes living in the south of the black continent, mainly on the ...
01-10-2024
The story of the ghost boy Martin Pistorius, who became a ...
Among the many human phobias, one of the most terrible is the fear of being completely immobilized. Martin Pistorius from South ...
30-09-2024
6 facts about the ai-ai — an animal whose name is forbidden ...
The Madagascar rukonozhka ai-ai is the only species of the rukonozhkov family and a regular participant in the anti-rating of the ...
27-09-2024
African leopards in photographs by Greg du Toit
Greg du Toit is a professional wildlife photographer. He travels a lot in Africa in search of beautiful shots and in his lens ...
21-09-2024
Amazakhs are indigenous light—skinned Africans related to ...
It is generally believed that the indigenous population of Africa are people with dark skin or, at least, very dark and ...
17-09-2024
Goats in trees in Morocco
Morocco is a country famous not only for its colorful bazaars and ancient medinas, but also for one amazing natural phenomenon. In ...
13-09-2024
Stone Forest in Madagascar
The Tsingi du Bemaraha Nature Reserve is located on the west coast of Madagascar and is famous for its amazing stone forest. The ...
12-09-2024
How People Partyed in Africa in the Late 1960s
The late 60s, the sexual revolution, distant South Africa, the apartheid regime – it would seem that they have absolutely nothing ...
09-09-2024
The Wild Side of Africa
During his trip to Africa, the famous Italian photographer Alex Bernasconi took thousands of pictures-from hiding hippos to ...
08-09-2024
The Devil's Font at Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls, or "Thundering Smoke" is located in South Africa, on the Zambezi River, between the countries of Zambia and ...
07-09-2024
Striking photos of Ethiopian tribes
Spanish photographer Diego Arroyo Mendes took a series of amazing pictures of village life in Ethiopia, where people have been for ...
07-09-2024
Mgingo is the most populous island in the world
Mgingo Island is located on Lake Victoria in Africa. Its area is about 1.8 thousand square meters. m, and 131 people live on it in ...
06-09-2024
Liberian maniacs Samuel Doe and Charles Taylor, or The Story ...
When in 1822 the US government acquired a piece of land on the Atlantic coast of the African continent for the freed black slaves, ...
04-09-2024
A moment of black humor, or the Simple everyday life of ...
Russia is so big country that could easily shelter any "neighbors", whether Ukrainians, Tatars, Armenians or even Africans. It is ...
03-09-2024
An abandoned cinema in the middle of the Sinai desert
Everyone has heard of such a phenomenon as a mirage. In fact, in the middle of the desert you can see the most unexpected things: ...
02-09-2024
Leopard People are cruel and mysterious killers from West Africa
From the beginning to the middle of the 20th century, there was a Leopard society in West Africa — a secret organization of ...