“Dum Dum, Gum Gum”
Remember the talking “Num Num” head in the movie, “Night at the Museum”? Well, that thing is real… not the talking part, but the head is! In fact on Easter Island, the Rapa Nui people produced more than 900 of those humanoid statues between the years 1250 and 1500. All of the statues were built in one place and then placed all over the island. What many people don’t know, is that the statues are actually full-bodied – they are just buried beneath the earth. The Moai, as the locals call them, represent and honor deceased ancestors.
“Dum Dum, Gum Gum”
Chemical Warfare
Syria has been battling with chemical warfare over the last decade, but did you know that chemical warfare was used in ancient Syria too? 19 Roman soldiers and 1 Persian soldier died from inhalation of a poisonous gas during a Persian siege in 256 AD. Archaeological digs found the bodies from that fateful battle. The gas became poisonous when the Persian army burned sulfur and bitumen crystals in a tunnel that was being used by the Roman soldiers to attack the Persian city. The 19 Romans suffocated and died.
Chemical Warfare