Random Encyclopedia Interesting Facts about World History

Today we share some Random Encyclopedia Interesting Facts about World History. The facts are based on Encyclopedia edition of 2014. History is one of the interesting topic, if you get it properly. It’s a set of mysteries. Archaeologist studies deeply and reveals many new secrets daily.

Random Encyclopedia Interesting Facts about World History

• “OTZI”  is the mummy found in Tyrol Alps in 1991. It was the mummy of a person who died in 3300 B.C. and Otzi is also known as the Iceman.
  
  

• From 75000 years ago humans made candles from animal fat and a wick is made of grass.

• The Babylonians were the first to divide a week into seven days and a day into 24 hours.

• In ancient times the Egyptians shaved their hair, in order to protect themselves from lice. They hide their bald head under black wigs.

• Egypt had gold mines and was the richest country of the Ancient World.

• Jade, a greenish gemstone, was more valuable to the Chinese than Gold.

• The Marathon race is based on a legend, according to which a Greek ran 40km to convey the message of Victory in the battle near Marathon.

• The reign, of Shah Jahan, is called as the “Golden Age Of The Mughals“.

• The Taj Mahal appears pink in the morning, white during the day and changes its colour Golden in the moonlight.

• In Europe, about 50,000 women were executed as witches.

• The world-famous painting Monalisa was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci.

• In the 2nd World War, about 55-60 million people lost their lives.

• In the language of the Eskimos, there is no word “WAR“.

• An archaeologist can investigate what the people ate and also which useful plants they cultivated in ancient time from the waste remain in the toilet pits.

• There were powerful Kingdoms in North Africa until the 16th century,
  which periodically controlled the whole of North Africa. The most well known are The Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.

• 147 meters high Pyramid of Cheops was the highest structure of the world until The Eiffel Tower was built in Paris In 1887.
  

• The famous Mongolian Ruler Genghis Khan succeeded from The Great Wall of China in 1210 with 100,000 soldiers and conquered Peking, the capital city of China.

• People used to eat with their hands, till a princess Frim Byzantine, the East Roman Empire introduced the first fork at a European royal court in 1701.

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