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 Sophia of Hanover Dies By Richard Cavendish Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6 2014 The heiress to the crowns of England and Ireland died on June 8th, 1714. If she had lived only a few weeks longer Sophia...
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 Emperor Maximilian arrives in Mexico City By Richard Cavendish Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6 2014 Mexico Maximilian of Austria acceded to the imperial throne of Mexico on June 12th, 1864. One of...
The 3,500-year-old “Cleopatra’s Needle” in New York is set to be cleaned by lasers. Stabilization and cleaning of the 3,500-year-old Obelisk, situated right behind the Met, starts this week, and is part of an effort to “promote its long term preservation and enhance the public’s understanding of the ancient artifact.” Working with the Met and ...
The remains of 50 mummies, including children, have been found in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. hey had been working on tomb KV 40 for three years and discovered a depression in the ground indicating a tomb underground. The layout of the tomb and who was buried there was not ...
The ship's slave captain became a hero during the Civil War; the ship will likely remain under water. ...
History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 14 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Questions of Gender By Joanne Bailey Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6 2014 Gender Joanne Bailey argues that gender history is no faddish digression from the historical route, but an advanced tool of analysis that is here to stay. Are men from Mars and women from Venus? Not according to...
History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 14 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Virtual Rome By Matthew Nicholls Posted 14th May 2014, 9:38 Architecture Roman Empire Students of ancient Rome as well as the many tourists visiting the Eternal City will benefit from a detailed new digital model, Virtual Rome , that has just won the Guardian’s Teaching Excellence Award in Higher Education....
History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 14 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the May issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue Dublin Burning By Maria Luddy Posted 14th May 2014, 13:10 Ireland Dublin Burning The Easter Rising from Behind the Barricades W.J. Brennan-Whitmore Gill & Macmillan 162pp £19.99 The centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising...
History Today Jump to Navigation Monday, 19 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: The Prize Crossword: June 2014 By Richard Smyth Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6 2014 Enter this month's crossword and win a selection of history books. Across 1 Hugh ___, royal favourite, brutally executed in 1326 (9) 6 Jenny ___ (b.1947), biographer of Gaskell, Bewick and Hogarth (5) 9 Paul...
A recent analysis of Cold War satellite imagery has tripled the number of known archaeological sites in the Middle East. “Some of these sites are gigantic, and they were completely unknown,” says atlas-team archaeologist Jesse Casana of the University of Arkansas, who presented the results. “We can see all kinds of things—ancient roads and canals. ...
Swiss artist H.R. Giger has died. Among his many strange accomplishments was designing a monster that wold inspire the vampire 'el chupacabra.' Continue reading → ...
A marble bust of Alexander the Great has been found at a basilica in Cyprus. Archaeologists in Cyprus found a marble bust of Alexander the Great – considered one of history’s most successful commanders – in a second three-aisled basilica that was brought to light on the site of Katalymmata ton Plakoton, of the Akrotiri ...
A mummy previously suspected to be a fake, in fact contains the remains of a human fetus, CT scanning reveals. Continue reading → ...
More than five centuries after it sank, the famous vessel's resting place may be known. ...
History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 13 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the May issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue Four Emperors and an Architect By Desmond Seward Posted 13th May 2014, 11:22 Architecture Four Emperors and an Architect How Robert Adam Rediscovered the Tetrarchy Alicia Salter Lexicon Publishing 180pp £20 Visitors to...
Masquerade masks have been a fundamental feature of the all-time famous Venetian carnival. People started to wear the masks in the 13th century, during the Santo Stefano Festival, on December 26. The maskmakers, also known as the mascherari, were important figures in society. They even had their own guilds and laws. In 1797, Venice joints ...
Restoration crews are busy working on cleaning 2,000 years of dirt off of the Colosseum in Rome. The $35 million project—the first full cleaning in the Colosseum’s history—aims to return it to its former splendor, while also strengthening the overall structure. Earthquakes, the pillaging of pieces of its outer frame, heavy car traffic and Rome’s ...
History Today Jump to Navigation Monday, 12 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the May issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue The Lawn Road Flats By Julie Wheelwright Posted 12th May 2014, 9:13 The Lawn Road Flats Spies, Writers and Artists David Burke The Boydell Press 271pp £25 David Burke, the historian who wrote the immaculately entitled The...
The remains of the SS City of Chester which sank in 1888 has been found by a NOAA surveying team. The City of Chester was headed up the California coast to Eureka with 90 passengers on Aug. 22, 1888, when it was struck by the steamer Oceanic about 10 a.m. Impaled on Oceanic, which was ...
Analysis carried out on blood found in a pumpkin that was thought to have belong to King Louis XVI has been proven not to have belonged to the executed French monarch. The results of an international study indicate that the DNA recovered from the inside of a pumpkin, attributed so far to the French King ...