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Until recently, it was believed that monasteries were lax and inefficient in distributing alms to the poor, but Dr. Neil Rushton’s research indicates that monastic almonries in medieval England were effective in relieving the plight of the poor, up until the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
nrushton - 29/03/2019 - 15:48
... read about a whole range of subjects, including science, art, philosophy, and economics. It was here that he found ...
dhwty - 25/03/2016 - 13:50
“Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping
forth upon their hands for their legs could not bear them, they
looked like anatomies of death, they spoke like ghosts, crying out
of their graves…in a short space there were none almost left and a most
populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast.”
Anne Chambers - 03/04/2020 - 23:01
A Chinese official said on Sunday that the central government has the right to confirm the new incarnation of the Dalai Lama and nothing he says or does will alter their power to do so. The remarks were made at a press conference ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), where the official also added that had it not being for Beijing’s intervention, Tibetans would have remained in the “dark age” of medieval practices and slavery.
aprilholloway - 08/09/2015 - 03:46
Edward Teach / Tache / Thatch, better known as Blackbeard, is arguably one of the world’s most notorious pirates. Like most other pirate tales, the story of Blackbeard also involves a treasure that is buried somewhere. It has been pointed out, however, that this is a myth, made famous thanks to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island.
dhwty - 22/01/2016 - 14:40
In Greek mythology, Thaumas is believed to be an ancient sea god and further is regarded to be the personification of the wonders of the sea. Although little is known today about this mysterious sea god, he was mentioned by a number of Greek and Roman writers during the Classical period and from these ancient sources we derive our current understanding of this god.
dhwty - 27/11/2018 - 13:44
Archaeologists in Italy are studying the remains of a Roman soldier who was thrust face-first into the sand at Herculaneum when Mount Vesuvius erupted on October 24th 79 AD. The presence of this particular Roman soldier suggests hundreds of ancient Romans fleeing the eruption of Vesuvius were only minutes away from being rescued on a boat, but they all perished.
ashley cowie - 11/05/2021 - 22:56
A “breakthrough” has been made in understanding the history of our planet. Studying ancient environmental DNA a team of researchers has now tracked and mapped the evolution of biological communities that existed some two million-years-ago (Mya).
ashley cowie - 08/12/2022 - 13:37
... character of Mulan has remained a very popular motif in art and literature. She appears as a heroine of more than 10 ...
Natalia Klimczak - 29/05/2020 - 16:38
The Djehuty Project, led by research professor, José Manuel Galán, from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has discovered a 4,000-year-old funerary garden- the first such garden ever to be found- on the Dra Abu el-Naga hill in Luxor, Egypt. The discovery comes during the 16th year of archaeological excavations which are sponsored this year by Técnicas Reunidas and Indra.
ancient-origins - 05/05/2017 - 01:54
The Gadianton robbers were a band of robbers in the ancient Americas according to the Book of Mormon. This dangerous group operated as a ‘secret combination’, a term used to describe various malevolent secret societies. The Gadianton robbers were much feared and have been held responsible for the destruction of the Nephites and the Jaredites, two of the four major groups of people believed by the Latter Day Saints to have settled in the ancient Americas.
dhwty - 11/02/2019 - 18:47
... Wadi az-Zilliyat, Saudi Arabia as discovered during rock art survey, view from the north. (SEBAP & Crassard et al. ...
Nathan Falde - 19/05/2023 - 14:54
The Book of Soyga, or the Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor, was written in the sixteenth century as a possible treatise on magic. The illustrious occultist John Dee of the court of Elizabeth I owned one of only two known copies, perhaps one of the reasons why it serves pertinent to research on Renaissance magic and alchemy. Not unlike his own work on the Enochian, or Angelical, alphabet, the Book of Soyga appears to contain another sort of alphabet—possibly a variation of Hebrew with alchemical symbols encoded
Riley Winters - 15/06/2015 - 00:17
A new study suggests that Europe has been ‘global’ for over a millennium. The evidence for this claim comes from a set of shared cultural practices spread over a wide area in early Medieval Europe. The researcher behind the study demonstrates that new ideas could actually spread rather quickly during the so-called Dark Ages.
Alicia McDermott - 21/01/2021 - 00:00
A remarkable chance discovery in the Danish village of Vindelev is revolutionizing our understanding of early Norse history. Two old school friends, armed only with a metal detector, stumbled across a treasure trove of more than 20 gold artifacts, weighing nearly a kilo. These items, hidden for close to 1,500 years, have unveiled a captivating glimpse into the past.
Robbie Mitchell - 10/06/2023 - 15:08
Australia may need to revise its history books after the mysterious skull of a white man found in New South Wales was found to date back to the 1600s, long before the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770, who is believed to have been the first European to reach the East Coast of the continent.
aprilholloway - 03/07/2013 - 11:43
When the film Wonder Woman is released in early June, it will surely join the blockbuster ranks of other recent comic book-inspired film franchises.
ancient-origins - 30/05/2017 - 14:00
... Johns, C. 2008. Dogs: History, Myth, Art . Harvard University Press Dennis-Bryan, K. and Morgan, ...
Mark A. Carpenter - 01/06/2021 - 18:48
Devil or angel? Sometimes it’s hard to tell. The concept of demons is an old one, harking back to the confiscation of pagan nature deities by the Roman Empire, which turned them into something more sinister and evil than may have originally been intended. Angels are as old as religion itself, appearing in the earliest of writings of Abrahamic traditions, including fallen angels who mated with human women and defied the will of God, and thus were kicked out of the heavenly realm to roam the wastelands of Hell.
Marie D. Jones and Larry Flaxman - 25/08/2016 - 01:50
At a staggering 88 meters tall, a 400-year-old tree found in the Brazilian Amazon has been declared the region’s largest tree. Researchers are now trying to figure out how it grew to such heights.
Alicia McDermott - 20/09/2019 - 14:01