History Today Jump to Navigation Friday, 02 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Alternative Histories: Crimea, 1855 By Rob Murray Posted 2nd May 2014, 8:07 View the discussion thread. Home The Archive Period Prehistory Ancient Roman Britain Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece Roman Empire Medieval (4th-15thC) Byzantine Empire Anglo-Saxon Norman Crusades Angevin Ottoman Empire Hundred Years War...
Amesbury Confimed as the UK's Oldest Settlement History Today Jump to Navigation Friday, 02 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Amesbury Confimed as the UK's Oldest Settlement By Paul Lay Posted 2nd May 2014, 12:47 Archaeology Britain Until recently it was thought that the oldest settlement in the United Kingdom was Thatcham in Berkshire. Now, due to an extraordinary project run by...
History Today Jump to Navigation Friday, 02 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the May issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue Commemorating the Holocaust By Cathy Bergin Posted 2nd May 2014, 13:20 Commemorating the Holocaust The Dilemmas of Remembrance in France and Italy Rebecca Clifford Oxford University Press 291pp £65 This clear-headed study...
History Today Jump to Navigation Friday, 02 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: The History Today Quiz: May 2014 By Dean Nicholas Posted 2nd May 2014, 13:34 This month's quiz features questions on the Industrial Revolution, Russia's capital city and the Ming Dynasty in China. Let us know how you get on in the comments. You can also play previous quizzes . View the discussion thread. Home...
Three sections of the Great Wall of China, built during the Qin Dynasty (221 B.C. – 206 B.C.) have been unearthed in China. The segments, which together span some 20 meters (65 ft.), were found near Nanchangtan, the former curator of the Museum of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region told the official Xinhua news agency. ...
The ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids may have been able to move massive stone blocks across the desert by wetting the sand in front of a contraption built to pull the heavy objects, according to a new study. ...
History Today Jump to Navigation Friday, 02 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Podcast: How the Scots Invented Britishness By Dean Nicholas Posted 2nd May 2014, 10:50 England Britain Scotland Paul Lay talks to Ian Bradley about how the Scots were the most vocal advocates of a vibrant, imperial, Protestant Great Britain. Ian's article, Britishness: a Scottish Invention is published...
Archaeologists working in Florence, Italy, have discovered the remains of a Roman theatre under the Palazza Vecchio. The latest find at the site in the centre of the Tuscan capital includes the original painted stone pavements along which spectators used to walk from the outer circle of the theatre to the orchestra pit, which already ...
Archaeologists and firefighters are working to preserve a siege tunnel in South Carolina that dates back to the Revolutionary War. In 1781 Patriots built the tunnel with the plan to burrow underneath the British-controlled Star Fort and plant explosives. And now in 2014, Greenwood firefighter Russel Cline climbed through the tunnel with specialized breathing equipment ...
Methods of executing prisoners may have changed over the centuries, but the outcome is always the same. ...
Making the work day manageable became a demand of the Chicago labor movement in the late 1860s. ...
Tiny fractures at the famous sculpture's ankles could prove devastating in the event of an earthquake. Continue reading → ...
Archaeologists discover what may be one of the earliest depictions of Jesus in an ancient Egyptian tomb. Continue reading → ...
A study of the remains of individuals who came to the New World with Christopher Columbus on his second trip has shown that the majority of the colonists suffered from scurvy. Historians have long blamed diseases such as smallpox, influenza, and malaria for the town’s demise. But a study of graveyard remains from the town ...
A piece of Egyptian papyrus dating back to the 3rd century A.D. has been translated, revealing details about a plot to fix a wrestling match. Researchers have deciphered a Greek document that shows an ancient wrestling match was fixed. The document, which has a date on it that corresponds to the year A.D. 267, is ...
A spy program that had been kept secret until 1992 is offering archaeologists a satellite view of thousands of previously unknown archaeological sites in the Middle East. ...
New analysis carried out on Chilean mummies has found high concentrations of arsenic. Previous analyses showed high concentrations of arsenic in the hair samples of mummies from both highland and coastal cultures in the region. However, researchers weren’t able to determine whether the people had ingested arsenic or if the toxic element in the soil ...
Some 24 centuries after the ancient Greek father of medicine taught his students under an Oriental plane tree, scientists say they have the tree's genetic blueprint. ...
Let's Get Serious About the First World War History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 29 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Let's Get Serious About the First World War By Paul Lay Posted 29th April 2014, 14:06 First World War The series of cultural events that go under the name 14-18 NOW , promoted by the Department of Media, Culture and Sport and planned for the centenary of the outbreak...
History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 29 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the May issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue The Great Kanto Earthquake By Andrew Robinson Posted 29th April 2014, 15:20 Architecture The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan J. Charles Schencking Columbia University Press 374pp...