Pope Francis made a historic visit Friday at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Nazi concentration camp, where he prayed in silence for the more than 1 million people who died in the Second World War. Read More...
Only a day after his death on 5 May 1821 16 witnesses, including seven physicians, attended the autopsy. They all came to the same conclusion: Napoleon Bonaparte died of stomach cancer. Although the verdict was clearly emerged over time numerous conspiracy theories about why that led to the demise of the French Empire first ruler Read More...
Though earlier artwork depicted the 13 subjects as saints, da Vinci’s work, pictured, suggests the disciples were common people, and that Jesus himself was actually mortal. Read More...
Christianity is the world's largest religion by a landslide. At over 2 billion adherents there is no religion or belief system even close. But the big guy is always an easy target. Write a book calling Jesus a zealot, point out an example of hypocrisy or just declare some biblical value as narrow-minded and Read More...
On July 19, 1893 was born Russian poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky (d. April 14, 1930), lauded Stalin who said that it is "the best and talented poet of our Soviet epoch." Read More...
The Annales Cambriae (Annals of Wales) is a Latin language chronicle, dating from around AD 970, covering 533 years in time. The chronicle's starting point, the entry marked "Year 1", is believed by scholars, to be the year AD 447. It is a curious collection of obscure Welsh material, but it does contain two entries that are of interest to students of Arthurian history
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CHARLES VII, King of France, fifth son of Charles VI and Isabeau of Bavaria, was born in Paris on the 22nd of February 1403. The count of Ponthieu, as he was called in his boyhood, was betrothed in 1413 to Mary of Anjou, daughter of Louis II, Duke of Anjou and king of Sicily, and spent the next two years at the Angevin court. Read More...
Late in the Second Intermediate Period (ca. 1640–1550 B.C.), the Theban rulers (Dynasty 17) began to drive the Hyksos kings (Dynasty 15) from the Delta. This was finally accomplished by Ahmose I, who reunited Egypt, ushering in the New Kingdom Read More...
Aristotle’s intellectual range was vast, covering most of the sciences and many of the arts, including biology, botany, chemistry, ethics, history, logic, metaphysics, rhetoric, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, physics, poetics, political theory, psychology, and zoology Read More...
It is said that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. Meanwhile, any historian will tell you that the past, often, is something that you did not want to relive it. Yet history, as we know it today abounds with myths and false personalities who have almost nothing in common Read More...
Joan of Arc is a historical name to conjure with, her image instantly, vividly recognisable across a distance of half a millennium. Her tale is both profoundly familiar and endlessly startling: the peasant girl sent by God to save France, dressed in armour as though she were a man Read More...
Battle of Cajamarca and horses who conquered an empire
Year of Our Lord 1532. An expeditionary corps composed of adventurers and wicked, led by the infamous Francisco Pizarro crosses the Amazon forest and swamps, heading for the biggest glutton empire in South America. Along with the no 200 Spaniards, 62 horses were fixed. Read More...
The Spartans have built one of the most powerful military techniques of the ancient world, but their culture was so fierce that the word,, Spartan 'has become synonymous with austere life. read more...
Whether we are talking about Christianity, ancient Rome or Greece about each emerged myths that we know today. read more...
They were slain in the conflict about 430,000 people Dutch archaeologists claim to have found the place where Julius Caesar and the Roman army managed to decimate two of the many Germanic tribes. Following the Battle of Kessel, they killed 150,000 warriors, women and children. (430,000) read more...
Achilles's tomb was discovered ! (USA) Two researchers from the University Cincinnati made an important discovery during excavations that we undertake at an archaeological site in southwestern Greece. It is the grave of a Greek warrior,s ago. read more...
The Welsh historian, Nennius, records twelve great victories in battle during Arthur's time as Dux Bellorum. Much of his material is mythical, however, and the magical number 12 does not sit well for historical evidence. Some historians have argued that this is too grea read more...
Some of the most fascinating discoveries made inside the tombs of ancient Egyptians are portraits which depict the past in the afterlife. Scientists assume that these paintings have strongly influenced the styles read more...
The work of University of Adelaide researchers is shedding new light on the evolution of what are believed to be the largest bears that ever walked the Earth.Dr Kieren Mitchell, from the University's Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Biological Sciences, has a new paper just published in Biology Letters. read more...
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