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The city of León Viejo has been rediscovered and is now open to visitors. The ruins of the city are very important in the history of the Central American nation as it has some of the oldest Spanish colonial buildings to have survived.
Ed Whelan - 12/06/2019 - 22:51
... keepers, were destroyed during the riots, causing her to sponsor the Poor Whores’ Petition . This satirical pamphlet ...
dhwty - 13/11/2018 - 13:58
Conditions on Mars are harsh. Its atmosphere is made up mostly of carbon dioxide and is 100 times thinner than Earth’s. Temperatures on the surface can plummet to minus-126 degrees Celsius. But the environment below the Martian surface may be similar to our own planet and may hold all the major elements required for life, some scientists say.
Does life still exist on Mars, even today? And if it does, could it somehow be related to life on Earth?
Nathan Falde - 19/06/2019 - 20:35
Archaeologists in Shaanxi Province, northwest China, have discovered the tomb of Emperor Xiaomin (birth name Yuwen Jue), the founding emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty (557-581). Emperor Xiaomin's tomb, a medium-sized one in the context of the Northern Zhou dynasty, is situated in Beihe Village, Weicheng District, Xianyang, an area known for its concentration of high-quality tombs spanning from the Northern Dynasties (439-581) to the Sui and Tang dynasties (581-907).
Sahir - 27/09/2023 - 22:51
By Alison Kyra Carter /The Conversation
Cambodia’s famous temple of Angkor Wat is one of the world’s largest religious monuments, visited by over 2 million tourists each year.
ancient-origins - 05/06/2019 - 14:05
By the 14th century, the foundations of Korea’s Goryeo Dynasty (918 -1392 CE) started to collapse from years of war and de facto occupation from the Mongol Empire. The royal court in Goryeo was at its most divided as it split into two conflicting factions led by General Yi Seonggye and General Choe Yeong. In 1392 CE, Yi Seonggye emerged victorious—thus ending the Goryeo Dynasty.
MartiniF - 24/07/2017 - 15:37
... of the chariot-racing amphora because they think he was a sponsor of races rather than a competitor. His remains showed ...
Mark Miller - 11/08/2016 - 00:46
A new proposal by researchers of the oldest known naturally mummified corpse, better known as Ötzi the Iceman, questions both the time and place of his death. New analysis points towards the time of year being spring rather than autumn, and that the body was moved by ice melt from further up the mountain.
Nathan Falde - 30/11/2022 - 22:00
There is much discussion about today’s highly paid athletes, be they football stars or Olympic competitors. According to Forbes, the top five highest-paid athletes in 2016 were Cristiano Ronaldo ($88 million), Lionel Messi ($81.4 million), LeBron James ($77.2 million), Roger Federer ($67.8 million), and Kevin Durant ($56.2 million). Yet to history’s highest paid athlete, these figures are a pittance.
Kerry Sullivan - 30/11/2016 - 14:48
Jousting was a popular sport among elites in medieval England, as anyone who has ever read a book or watched a movie about English knights in the Middle Ages is well aware. Jousters wore thick armor and carried long and sturdy wooden lances during these spirited combat-simulating contests, riding on the backs of powerful and highly trained jousting horses bred to support a heavy load.
Nathan Falde - 25/03/2024 - 21:53
While exploring in and around Lima, a team of Peruvian archaeologists from the National Major University of San Marcos (UNSM) uncovered the remains of a U-shaped stone temple that was somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 years old. This connects it to an era known as the Andean Formative period (1,500 to 500 BC), when a temple-building culture occupied the area of central Peru that surrounds the modern country’s capital city.
Nathan Falde - 15/05/2023 - 18:54
Choquequirao is known as the ‘sacred sister’ of Machu Picchu, as it is similar to this site both in structure and architecture. With demand ever high to trek the now well-worn Inca trail to Machu Picchu, but places limited to 500 per day and prices high, Choquequirao is now being offered as the alternative trail to follow.
dhwty - 30/08/2018 - 16:51
On a chilly winter day in 1929, Halil Edhem, the Director of Turkey's National Museum, was hunched over his solitary task of classifying documents. He pulled towards him a map drawn on Roe deer skin. As Halil opened the chart to its full dimensions (two feet by three feet wide or 60 X 90 cm) he was surprised by how much of the New World was depicted on a map which dated from 1513.
ancient-origins - 22/07/2017 - 19:08
In September 2012, a photograph snapped by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity caught the attention of Internet sleuths everywhere. This picture appears to show a large rat hiding among some Martian rocks, and after its release it quickly went viral.
The image of what looks like a camouflaged rodent was spotted by a UFO enthusiast inspecting a panoramic shot taken at the “Rocknest” site.
Nathan Falde - 14/07/2019 - 14:46
... of astronomic symbols. ( Public Domain ) Parish priest and sponsor Christen Steffensen Bang who wanted to print his own ...
ancient-origins - 25/03/2018 - 12:11
In classical antiquity, Amorium was an important, strategically located city in the kingdom of Phrygia in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey. Amorium was founded in the Hellenistic period (323 BC – 31 BC) and flourished in the Byzantine period (5th century AD – 15th century AD) until it was sacked by certain Arabs in 838 AD. However, the city remained important well into the 11th century.
Sahir - 07/02/2022 - 18:00
An international team of researchers has published a paper that sheds new light on how ancient military technology and the weapons industry changed through time. Their ancient military technology study covers almost 10,000 years of world history, ranging from the late Neolithic period (7,000 BC to 5,000 BC) to modern times.
Nathan Falde - 26/10/2021 - 19:00
The Hoysala Empire was a Southern Indian empire that existed between the 10th and 14th centuries A.D. This empire ruled over much of the present day state of Karnataka. Initially, the capital of the Hoysala Empire was located at Belur, but was later moved to Halebidu. One of the great legacies of the Hoysalas is their contribution to the development of several creative fields as well as humanistic and spiritual thought.
dhwty - 24/06/2014 - 04:02
The first subject of our enquiry must be Caesar Augustus himself. He is often described as the first Roman emperor, but that is a wholly misleading description. What causes the misunderstanding is the simple-minded idea that the Roman republic came to a sudden end in the civil wars of the forties BC, and that what followed was the imperial monarchy. That was not what happened.
T.P. Wiseman - 15/11/2019 - 14:06