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  1. Norse Explorers Reached Azores 700 Years Before Portuguese

    ... Adobe Stock) Located 900 miles (1,448 km) off the coast of Portugal and 930 miles (1,497 km) northwest of Morocco, the ... narrative, Prince Henry the Navigator, based at Tomar in Portugal, is believed to have commissioned Portuguese sailor ...

    ashley cowie - 10/10/2021 - 18:58

  2. 80,000 Years Ago Neanderthals Supercharged Their Brains On Acid

    ... creatures has been found in the cave of Figueira Brava in Portugal , located 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) south of Lisbon ... in Europe . Ancient Acids Raised Cognitive Prowess Today, Portugal’s cave of Figueira Brava is located directly on ...

    ashley cowie - 31/03/2020 - 02:01

  3. Weird Ideas, Weird Behaviors: Bringing the Habsburg Family Skeletons Out of the Closet

    ... England, France, Germany, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and many others. They ... - specifically from her maternal grandmother: Isabel of Portugal, who had the same symptoms as Joanna. In Joanna’s ...

    Natalia Klimczak - 09/10/2016 - 00:41

  4. Are Stone Circles Ancient Pregnancy Calendars?

    ... these almost forgotten and influential women are called in Portugal. These shamanistic women could speak with the dead, ... Casa da Moura (‘House of the Moura’), a dolmen in Portugal ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Lunar Connection But what about the ... Tepi? Legends say mysterious women built the megaliths of Portugal The Legend of the Stone Circle known as Long Meg and ...

    David Halpin - 06/10/2016 - 14:55

  5. Chefchaouen: Morocco's Blue Pearl City

    ... stand fortress in the Rif region of Morocco. Alfonso V of Portugal, who continued his grandfather’s attempt to gain ... This was known as the Expulsion of Jews from Spain and Portugal, both of which occurred in the 1490s. From here, ...

    Riley Winters - 08/08/2020 - 13:58

  6. 500 Years Ago Today Magellan and Elcano Set Sail to Conquer the World

    ... (c. 1480 – 1521) sailed under the flags of both Portugal (1505–13) and Spain (1519–21) and, like ... barred from using the route around Africa by a treaty with Portugal, and Magellan was challenged with finding a safe ...

    ashley cowie - 10/08/2019 - 12:54

  7. A History of Hamilcar: Akre Leuca, Dream City of Hamilcar Barca– Part II

    ... in what is now a small Portuguese city in the interior of Portugal. Castelo Branco was once upon a time a unique place, ... to Rome, now become a mere backstage town in rural Portugal, detached from its identity? The answer is that just ... Lusitanian, and he united the tribes which now form modern Portugal under one banner and one purpose: to prevent Roman ...

    tom hamilton - 03/02/2017 - 23:27

  8. 20 Million Artifacts In Latin America’s Largest Museum - Gone - In Blazing Inferno

    ... the collection was founded in 1818 by King João VI of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, to promote ... kept by Dom Pedro I, who declared Brazil independent from Portugal in 1825. It also housed the 11,500-year-old skull ...

    ashley cowie - 04/09/2018 - 13:55

  9. From the Pyramids to Stonehenge – were Prehistoric People Astronomers?

    ... of connected stones and a long narrow entrance – in Portugal. Archaeologist Fabio Silva has shown how views from ... Same Architects? Fieldwork at one of the passage graves in Portugal, Dolmen da Orca. Next to the stone structure is a ...

    ancient-origins - 20/03/2018 - 00:59

  10. A History of Hamilcar: The Legend of Cardosa and a Lost Carthaginian City – Part I

    ... to have been well acquainted with the ‘antiquities of Portugal’. He said Castelo Branco had been rebuilt by the ... Phoenicians to gain access to the interior of what is now Portugal. They had established trading routes through what is now the Beira region of Portugal. De Sousa tells us that they, around 550 BC, asked ...

    tom hamilton - 02/02/2017 - 14:04

  11. The Walls of Benin: Four Times Longer Than The Great Wall of China!

    ... wood and brush. ( Nigerian Embassy ) Trade Begins with Portugal and the Stories of Benin Begin Although the Walls of ...

    dhwty - 25/12/2021 - 14:00

  12. The Grotesque World of Gargoyles

    ... Medieval Sites Gargoyle on the Pena Castle, Sintra, Portugal. ( NICOLA / Adobe Stock) They have also been ...

    Sarah P Young - 31/12/2020 - 20:19

  13. Reclaiming Iberia: The Epic Tale of the Reconquista in Spain

    ... Aragon, Catalonia, Castile, Leon and Navarre, as well as Portugal which had claimed independence in the 1140s, that ... followed in Aragon in 1173, then Alcantra in 1176, and Portugal’s Order of Evora in 1178.  The Knights ... their mission was to assist King Alfonso Henriques of Portugal in taking back the city from the Muslims. It was a ...

    Robbie Mitchell - 03/12/2023 - 21:56

  14. Stonehenge is not the only prehistoric monument that has been moved - but it is still unique

    ... interesting outcome from a recent conference in Redondo, Portugal, on prehistoric megaliths and “second-hand ... is that – while some megalithic stones for monuments in Portugal and elsewhere were brought  as far as 8km from ...

    ancient-origins - 13/12/2015 - 00:46

  15. Exploring the Ancient Andes - 2016 Peru & Bolivia Tour

    ... by the local indigenous people of the regions. Antonio Portugal Alzuviri Antonio was born in 1948 in the Chulumani ...

    ancient-origins - 15/01/2016 - 23:23

  16. Remains of 3,000 of Napoleon’s soldiers found in mass grave show signs of starvation

    ... central Europe, especially around southern France, Spain, Portugal, and parts of Italy. Based on historical context, ... Westphalia, Poland, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Lithuania, Poland, Croatia, Illyria, and Russia ...

    Mark Miller - 27/07/2015 - 14:19

  17. First known colonial building in sub-Saharan Africa, with dark history, revealed to the public

    ... as the finds include fine ware and faience from Portugal, German stoneware, Chinese porcelain and pottery ... slave trade began to be outlawed in the 19 th century, and Portugal began to neglect the islands. “The islanders were ...

    Mark Miller - 07/11/2015 - 03:40

  18. The Rise and Fall of Central Africa’s Mighty Kingdom of Kongo

    ... of Christianity with the help of religious advisers from Portugal . This meant that a special type of Christianity was ... tobacco .  But this wasn’t done out of the goodness of Portugal’s heart. It was all an attempt at ... become a more valuable trading partner. More importantly, Portugal wanted Kongo tied to it as closely as possible so ...

    Robbie Mitchell - 10/04/2023 - 14:55

  19. Isis, An Egyptian Goddess Who Spread Her Wings Across Europe

    ... unknown master from Bruges, 16th century. Museu de Aveiro, Portugal. ( Public Domain ) It was also a period when a ...

    Natalia Klimczak - 02/08/2016 - 00:48

  20. The Strange History of the Toothpick: Neanderthal Tool, Deadly Weapon, and Luxury Possession

    ... to the nuns of the Mosteiro de Lorvão in Coimbra, Portugal. Instead of being used for cleaning the teeth, ... Earliest Example of Dentistry Known to Date This area in Portugal eventually became renowned for the high-quality ...

    dhwty - 19/01/2018 - 01:58

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