The Battle of Towton, fought on March 29, 1461, during the Wars of the Roses, was a gruesome and decisive conflict in English history. Read more Section: Artifacts Other Artifacts News Ancient Places Europe Videos History Important… Read More "Skeletons Show Horrific Injuries from The Battle of Towton (Video)"
Cromwell in the Battle of Naseby in 1645, by Charles Landseer, 1851. Wikimedia Commons Among the most extraordinary figures from English history, Oliver Cromwell stands out for a number of reasons: at the age… Read More "From the Protector’s Mouth | History Today"
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new study shows that social disintegration and violent conflict played a crucial role in shaping the population dynamics of early farming societies in Neolithic Europe. Cave painting of a battle… Read More "Violent Conflict Played A Crucial Role In Early Farming Societies In Neolithic Europe – New Study"
In a bizarre turn of events, the English Parliament supposedly asked for permission to abstain from kissing the less-than-beloved King Henry VI of England in the late 1430s. The intriguing question arises: what prompted this… Read More "No Kissing, Please! Henry VI Lived Through a Lip-Lock Lockdown"
Ben Jones. Just over a decade after the imperial outpost of Tsaritsyn had become the Soviet city of Stalingrad in 1925, a young writer named Manuil Semenov published a short story, ‘Prisoners of the… Read More "What We Talk About When We Talk About Tunguska"
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – People tend to think that the idea that biological sex is linked with one’s role in society belongs in the past. But was it even the case in prehistory? Archaeologists… Read More "Elusive Non-Binary Gender In Prehistoric Europe – A Forgotten Minority"
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church is a unique branch of Christianity that traces its roots back to the earliest days of the faith. Read more Section: News Ancient Places Africa Videos History Ancient Traditions Read Later Source… Read More "The Challenging Rituals of Ethiopia’s Christian Timkat Ceremony (Video)"
View of the Hagia Sophia by Jan Luyken, engraving, 1681. Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Barely 20 years old and there were already cracks in the dome of Justinian’s church of Sancta Sophia,… Read More "Sancta Sophia Collapses | History Today"
AncientPages.com – Homo sapiens, our own species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists are pretty confident in that estimate, based on fossil, genetic and archaeological evidence. Then what happened? How modern humans spread throughout the rest of the world… Read More "Enigmatic Human Fossil Jawbone May Be Evidence Of An Early Homo Sapiens Presence In Europe"
On Saturday, April 8, tour guides at the historic Croome Court estate in Worcestershire were stunned to find crayon markings all over a statue and memorial plaque located on the court’s sprawling landscape grounds. At… Read More "Historic Croome Court Sculptures Marked Up By Crayon-Wielding Miscreants"