Helen Cam (1885-1968), the first woman to be elected to a chair at Harvard, was a formidable English medievalist. Unusually for a legal historian, she had a keen eye for the human dramas not entirely… Read More "What Makes Good Historical Fiction?"
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Since their initial discovery in 1927, scientists have identified 430 figurative Nazca geoglyphs across over 130 miles of desert. These geoglyphs are smaller and older than the Nazca lines. Geoglyphs… Read More "AI Discovers Hundreds Of Unusual Nazca Geoglyphs In The Desert"
How Old is Beer?
By Daniel Strain/University of Colorado Boulder Oktoberfest, the German beer festival, kicked off this week in Munich. To mark the occasion, Travis Rupp, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Classics, tackles the question: “How old… Read More "How Old is Beer?"
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
On 27 October 1924 the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic came into being as part of the Soviet Union, four years after a group of Muslim modernisers had formed an unholy alliance with a cohort of… Read More "Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road"
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Over the years, numerous intriguing and valuable Viking Age artifacts have been discovered worldwide. Some of these finds are well-known and displayed in museums for public admiration, while others remain… Read More "Unusual Viking Secret Hidden Underground In California Reminds Of A Similar Discovery In Colorado"
Mammoths became extinct on mainland Alaska just under 12,000 years ago. Or at least that’s the current consensus. This timeline supports the argument that the arrival of humans at the end of the last Ice… Read More "Alaskan University Offers the Curious a Chance to Adopt a Mammoth"
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
It began as a joke. There were grumbles of conservative discontent about the lack of ceremony at the coronation of Queen Victoria in June 1838. Where was the ceremonial banquet? Where was the Royal Champion?… Read More "The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off"
AncientPages.com – Pottery was largely unknown in Australia before the recent past, despite well-known pottery traditions in nearby Papua New Guinea and the islands of the western Pacific. The absence of ancient Indigenous pottery in… Read More "Aboriginal People Made Pottery And Navigated To Remote Islands Millennia Before Europeans Arrived"
Peter and Paul Wentworth were notable figures in Elizabethan England, remembered for their staunch defense of parliamentary privileges, in particular the protection of free speech. Peter, the elder brother, is renowned for his passionate speeches… Read More "The Wentworth Brothers: Defenders of Free Speech"
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
His name was Hugh Donald McIntosh. An Australia-born entrepreneur, he had been a fight promoter, theatrical producer and newspaper magnate. By 1935, however, he was bankrupt. Attempts to resurrect his fortune included an angora rabbit… Read More "Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens"