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1. The Incredible History of Kolossi Castle - Won By Richard the Lionheart, Home to the Knights Templar, and Birthplace of the King of Wines

   ... ship was not wrecked, it was not seaworthy and those on board, despite their status, were not well received by the ...

   dhwty - 18/12/2018 - 01:53

2. Reconstructing an Ancient Lethal Weapon

   ... While ancient Alaskans used atlatls (a kind of throwing board), Wood used a maple recurve bow to shoot the arrows for ...

   ancient-origins - 04/02/2018 - 22:41

3. Creators of the 800 Al Jassasiya Rock Carvings Remain Undetected

   ... the soft limestone. One argues that they are part of a board game, possibly played by local pearl fishermen, while ...

   Ed Whelan - 21/01/2020 - 01:52

4. Archaeologists to explorer secrets of Mars, the fiercest warship of the 16th century

   ... in pulling alongside the burning ship so soldiers could board her. As gunpowder on the warship fuelled the inferno, ... private quarters but we can dive into it as well. As we move into the darkness of the overhead my eyes opened wide, ...

   aprilholloway - 15/07/2014 - 03:13

5. Da Vinci’s Deadly Designs: The Wildest Weapons of the Renaissance Man

   ... and came with wheels, meaning it would have been easy to move around the battlefield. There is no evidence that a ... most of Leonardo’s designs never left the drawing board - but why was this? Many of his designs were ahead of ... For example, the tank's gear design meant it couldn’t move. It has been theorized that da Vinci was secretly a ...

   Robbie Mitchell - 17/09/2022 - 19:00

6. The Children's Crusade: Thousands of Children March to Holy Land but Never Return

   The Children’s Crusade is one of the more unusual events that occurred in Medieval England. In the year 1212,  tens of thousands of self-proclaimed, unarmed crusading children set out from northern France and western Germany to regain Jerusalem from the Muslims. While never actually receiving official sanction, the so-called crusade was a disaster.

   dhwty - 09/11/2018 - 17:23

7. Death Photo of Abraham Lincoln Proved, or More Fake News?

   The discovery of a haunting photograph of Abraham Lincoln on his deathbed has created controversy thanks to the airing of a documentary which follows a California investigator on her hunt to discover if the image is authentic, or not. For many years North American history enthusiasts have debated over the authenticity of photographs that appear to show a deceased Abraham Lincoln.

   ashley cowie - 06/10/2020 - 14:00

8. Has The “Red Bag” That Once Held Sir Walter Raleigh’s Decapitated Head Been Discovered At An Old Family Manor?

   Four hundred years ago, Sir Walter Raleigh, the famous English poet, soldier and explorer responsible for the first ever English colonies in the New World, was beheaded for conspiring against Queen Elizabeth I’s successor, James. Traditions recount how Raleigh’s widow, Bess, had her husband’s head embalmed. Now at West Horsley Place in Carew, England, where Raleigh’s family lived, a “red bag” has been discovered that might have at one time held Raleigh’s head.

   ashley cowie - 01/11/2018 - 13:00

9. British Geologist Gets Ridiculous 15-year Prison Sentence in Iraq

   ... without expressed written permission from the Iraq State Board of Antiquities and Heritage is an offense punishable by ...

   Sahir - 07/06/2022 - 18:46

10. Tunnel Vision – The Mysterious Forced Entry of the Caliph into the Great Pyramid of Giza

    The classical account of the discovery of the upper chambers inside the Great Pyramid at Giza is well known. In the ninth century an Arab governor of Cairo, known as the Caliph al Ma’mun, decided to see for himself what lay inside the Great Pyramid. Because the entrance to the pyramid was concealed and its location unknown, his workers began to excavate a tunnel boldly through the casing and core blocks, with hammers and chisels.

    ralph ellis - 02/07/2014 - 01:30

11. Was the Devil’s Dyke in England once Part of the Legendary City of Troy?

    ... quickly corrected what was written on the information board by explaining that it once continued northwest for a ...

    Hugh Newman - 16/09/2017 - 19:05

12. British Police Join Search for Legendary Holy Grail

    By Paul Darin, Epoch Times

    The search for the legendary “Holy Grail,” the cup that Jesus used during his last supper before his crucifixion and/or the cup that caught his blood during his crucifixion, has inspired storytellers since the tales of King Arthur were first told in medieval Europe.

    ancient-origins - 17/08/2014 - 02:59

13. Gene Flow and Counter Current—Hopi Sea Voyages From the Lost Continent of Mu

    To the layperson genetics can seem like a foreign language. Phylogenetic trees look somewhat like schematics for electronic circuit boards. I can read neither. However, if one can manage to decipher the academic literature, certain clues about population migration become apparent.

    garydavid - 17/08/2014 - 00:25

14. Evolution of a Native American Society: A Journey Through Ancient History

    As a Native American culture, the Chickasaw people broadly trace their ancestry back to the migratory peoples of the Paleo-Indian period, which spanned from roughly 10,000 BC - 8500 BC. Legend has it that the Chickasaws migrated for generations from “the place in the West” to settle in what is now the Southeast.

    chickasaw - 14/06/2014 - 00:37

15. In a world with no antibiotics, how did doctors treat infections?

    The development of antibiotics and other antimicrobial therapies is arguably the greatest achievement of modern medicine. However, overuse and misuse of antimicrobial therapy predictably leads to resistance in microorganisms. Alternative therapies have been used to treat infections since antiquity, but none are as reliably safe and effective as modern antimicrobial therapy.

    ancient-origins - 01/02/2016 - 14:51

16. Zorats Karer: The Incredible History of the 7,500-year-old Armenian Stonehenge

    ... different views on the purpose of the site. As Bnorran board member Arevik Sargsyan told Armenpress : “We think ...

    Natalia Klimczak - 02/08/2019 - 14:17

17. Stunning Lost Medieval Altar Found in the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

    ... At some point the altar slab was repurposed as a graffiti board, as it sat against a back wall barely noticed by church ...

    Nathan Falde - 14/04/2022 - 18:57

18. Bizarre and Horrifying Cases of Mass Hysteria Through History

    Mass hysteria is a term used to describe the situation in which physical or psychological symptoms appear en masse, spreading rapidly throughout communities, and occasionally across whole cities and countries.  During an outbreak, afflicted individuals may experience uncontrollable laughter, fainting, fits, dizziness, muscle weakness, or any number of other symptoms that do not appear to have any physical cause.

    Joanna Gillan - 12/03/2022 - 21:58

19. Years Before Columbus: Leif Erikson, His Life and His Voyage of Adventure to the New World

    ... their meals in a fire and spend their free time playing board games. In 1961, another discovery was made at this ...

    Natalia Klimczak - 26/01/2016 - 03:49

20. The King Who Made War Illegal! Challenging the Official History of The Art of War and the First Emperor –Part I

    There are two great mysteries about the life of Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China—and a grand conspiracy. And these tightly related events are of profound significance extending way beyond the borders of China.

    Shibumi - 31/03/2017 - 23:05

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