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The recent discovery of Christopher Columbus' Santa Maria is one of the greatest of many big undersea finds in history. ...

New evidence suggests that Neanderthals knew how to boil their food. Neanderthals were a species of early humans who lived in Europe and the Near East until about 30,000 years ago. Conventional wisdom holds that boiling to soften food or render fat from bones may have been one of the advantages that allowed Homo sapiens ...

History Today Jump to Navigation Friday, 16 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the May issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue John Biffen: Semi-Detached By Paul Addison Posted 16th May 2014, 13:46     John Biffen Semi-Detached Biteback Publishing  468pp  £30 As a backbench Tory MP John Biffen was one of the very few disciples of Enoch Powell. On immigration,...

A medieval village dating back between 1472 to 1645 has been unearthed in Scotland. German and Dutch pots, jugs and mugs, coins including an American cent, spindles, a sheep skull and horse teeth have been found by archaeologists digging in the Scottish Borders, where doors integrated into walls have revealed a “lost” Medieval village of ...

The girl skeleton found by divers in Mexico's Eastern Yucatan Peninsula is 12-13,000 years old and shows a genetic link to modern Native Americans. ...

Divers mapping underwater caves in Mexico's Eastern Yucatán Peninsula came upon a surprising find: the skeleton of a young, prehistoric girl. ...

9,000-year-old stone hunting blinds have been found preserved at the bottom of Lake Huron. In 37 metres of water, just over 50 kilometres from shore, O’Shea was looking at two stone lines forming a lane about 30 metres long and eight metres wide which ended in a corral-type structure. It had hunting blinds built into ...

History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 15 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: The Dreaded Sweat: the Other Medieval Epidemic By Jared Bernard Posted 15th May 2014, 9:35     Medicine   Most people have heard of the Black Death, which obliterated 60% of Europe’s population during the mid-14th century. Yet there was another medieval epidemic that took many thousands of lives, known as the...

History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 15 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: In the June issue of History Today By Dean Nicholas Posted 15th May 2014, 10:20     In the cover story for this month's edition, Raoul McLoughlin tells the story of the Kingdom of Meroe , the ancient African realm that went to war with the Rome of Augustus and Nero. Also in this issue: William Funk goes to America’s...

History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 15 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Siam Becomes Thailand By Richard Cavendish Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6   2014       People speaking one of the Tai group of languages settled in what is now Thailand around 1,000 years ago. The name Siam came from a Sanskrit word,  syam . It was adopted by the Portuguese from the 16th century...

History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 15 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Exhibition: Richard Hamilton, Tate Modern By Matt Lodder Posted 15th May 2014, 12:19     Art   Why Do Fools Fall in Love by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers echoes through the vast expanse of Tate Modern’s current retrospective of recently deceased British pop-art pioneer Richard Hamilton. The sugar-coated, doo-wop...

History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 21 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Into Battle Over Bosworth By Chris Skidmore Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6   2014       Wars of the Roses   Richard III   Henry VII   Chris Skidmore praises Colin Richmond’s 1985 article, which offered a new theory, later confirmed, about the true location of one of the most famous battles in...

History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 22 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the June issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue The Iron Amir: Britain in Afghanistan, 1880 By Bijan Omrani Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6   2014       Afghanistan   In 1880, after an unsuccessful attempt to occupy the southern half of the country, British...

History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 22 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the June issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue An African Holocaust By Dean White Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6   2014       Africa   In Rwanda 20 years ago Hutu turned on Tutsi and a genocide lasting 100 days began. Dean White explains the historical background...

History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 22 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the June issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue The Baby Farmer of Reading By Barbara Butcher Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6   2014       Crime   The stigma of illegitimacy forced many women in Victorian Britain to hand over their babies to adopters or ‘baby...

History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 22 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the June issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue Desert Legions: The Romans in Africa By Raoul McLaughlin Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6   2014       Empire   Roman Empire   Africa   The River Nile and a thirst for commerce and land led the armies of Rome deep...

History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 22 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the June issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue A Splendid Little War By Roger Hudson Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6   2014       Photography   Cuba   Roger Hudson sheds light on an 1898 image of US soldiers fighting alongside Cubans to end Spanish rule on...

History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 22 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the June issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue Brutal Saviours of the Black Patch By William H. Funk Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6   2014       USA   In 1904 tobacco farmers of Kentucky and Tennessee, pushed into poverty by the American Tobacco Company, formed...

History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 22 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the June issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue History on TV: The Great War By Taylor Downing Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6   2014       First World War   Taylor Downing looks at the making of the pioneering television series that launched BBC2 and marked...

History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 22 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the June issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue The Shelleys in Ireland By Eleanor Fitzsimons Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6   2014       Ireland   In 1812 the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife, Harriet, travelled to Dublin to assist the Irish cause and...