O QUE ME CHAMOU A ATENÇÃO

Ossos com 150 milhões de anos

Fóssil de dinossauro couraçado descoberto na Batalha

26.12.2006 - 12h35 Teresa Firmino

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Participação de investigadores portugueses

Satélite astronómico francês Corot colocado em órbita com sucesso

27.12.2006 - 17h21

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FOTO

Baalbek, Lebanon, Date Unknown
Photograph by George F. Mobley

"Awe-inspiring even in ruin, the splendor of Baalbek [40 miles (64 kilometers) northeast of Beirut] must have defied description in its time of glory. Rome began erecting the huge sanctuaries in the first century A.D., on a site previously dedicated to the Canaanite god Baal."
(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Lebanon: Little Bible Land in the Crossfire of History," February 1970, National Geographic magazine)