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1. Crusaders Grave Shows Many Were Killed From Behind

   ... crusaders graves found near Sidon, Lebanon. (The Morgan Library & Museum / PLOS One ) Paying the Ultimate Price for a ...

   Nathan Falde - 17/09/2021 - 14:36

2. Could ancient textbooks be the source of the next medical breakthrough?

   ... written by Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq. Credit: The National Library of Finland Holistic medicine Perhaps most ...

   ancient-origins - 07/10/2015 - 21:34

3. Catapult: The Long-Reaching History of a Prominent Medieval Siege Engine

   ... World Medieval Sword contains Cryptic Code. British Library appeals for help to crack it. The Incredible Medical ...

   dhwty - 26/02/2021 - 18:06

4. World’s Oldest Star Chart Discovered Hidden in Medieval Codex

   ... who was a librarian and chief astronomer at the legendary Library of Alexandria. This was found on a parchment in the ...

   ashley cowie - 19/10/2022 - 18:52

5. Mysore Munitions: A Stockpile of Over 1,000 Antique Rockets Has Been Unearthed in India

   ... by Richard Colley Wellsley, now in the care of the British Library. ( Public Domain ) The rusty Mysorean rockets which ...

   Alicia McDermott - 02/08/2018 - 13:58

6. The Piraeus Lion of Venice: Runes and Roaming from Greece to Italy

   ... Athens, which Morosini himself had conquered. (Yale Law Library / CC BY 2.0 ) He was, however, more successful with ...

   dhwty - 06/11/2020 - 00:58

7. Musical Monk: Guido of Arezzo and His Impact on the History of Music

   ... when it came to learning the melody of a song. British Library intern finds earliest known piece of polyphonic music ...

   dhwty - 09/08/2016 - 03:40

8. Bronze Horse Head of Waldgirmes Emphasizes that Germanic Tribes and Romans Sometimes Played Nice

   ... Excavated Ruins in Germany Have Been Identified as a Roman Library Worship? Meditation? Sacrifice? What Ancient Ritual ...

   Alicia McDermott - 30/08/2018 - 14:04

9. Taraxippus, the Terrifying Horse Scarer: Apparition Appeared Across Racetracks in Ancient Greece

   ... Pseudo-Apollodorus wrote in the Epitome, part of his Library. Pelops and Oenomaus were evenly matched with their ... New York: Random House, 2004. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library. Translated by J.G. Frazer, vol. 2. Boston: ...

   Carly Silver - 29/12/2016 - 00:48

10. The Anarchy: A Whirlwind of Chaos and Warfare in Medieval England

    ... Baldwin to address the army on his behalf. (British Library / Public domain ) In 1141 AD, while he was besieging ...

    Aleksa Vučković - 26/08/2020 - 13:53

11. Why So Few Witches Were Executed in Wales in the Middle Ages

    ... from the 16th century onward are held at the National Library of Wales. We know from those trial records that ...

    ancient-origins - 11/04/2024 - 22:46

12. Lavish banquet hall where Henry VIII entertained visiting royalty is discovered beneath playground

    ... artist Fortunino Matania. Credit: The Bridgeman Art Library.  By: Mark Miller Lavish banquet hall where Henry ...

    Mark Miller - 15/12/2015 - 00:43

13. Voynich Manuscript Is Solved And This Time It’s Academic

    ... where it is filed as item MS408 in the Beinecke Library of rare books and manuscripts. The island of ...

    Gary Manners - 15/05/2019 - 17:34

14. Anne Greene, The Accused Baby Killer Who Refused to Die

    ... of the scene is depicted on a woodcarving in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The Duk Duk: An Ancient Secret Society of ...

    dhwty - 05/04/2019 - 18:51

15. The Levites and the Kohens: The Patriarchal High Priests of Judaism

    ... [Online]  Available at:  https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4254752/jewish/Who-Were-t... Shields, ...

    dhwty - 30/01/2021 - 14:00

16. Walking the Waves: How Orion’s Ability to “Walk on Water” Was Ascribed to Jesus

    ... ability to “sea walk” was reiterated in The Library of the Greek mythographer Apollodorus (50 BC), the ...

    John McHugh - 18/12/2018 - 23:02

17. Nourisher of Mind and Mayhem: The Oracle of Trophonius and the Cave of Nightmares

    ... I: Books 1-2. (trans. W.H.S Jones, 1918). Loeb Classical Library: Harvard. Pausanias. Description of Greece, Volume ... Ozolian Locri . (trans. W.H.S Jones, 1935). Loeb Classical Library: Harvard. Roller, Duane. 2014. The Geography of ...

    Riley Winters - 01/10/2017 - 13:43

18. The True Origins of Arthur’s Stone in Herefordshire Finally Revealed

    ... a drawing by Henry G. Gastineau, circa 1840 AD. (National Library of Wales /  Public domain ) The Competing Legends of ...

    Nathan Falde - 17/08/2021 - 22:41

19. Priceless Ancient Papyrus with Gospel of John Extract Found on eBay for $99

    ... to persuade the seller to place the papyrus in a research library. Transcription of ancient manuscript suggests Jesus ...

    aprilholloway - 21/11/2015 - 21:45

20. The Heliand: A Germanic Account of Jesus Written to Suit the Saxon World

    ... a copy of the poem in the archives of the Cottonian Library. Parts of the poem were published in 1705 by John ...

    Caleb Strom - 17/02/2019 - 18:56

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