History Today Jump to Navigation Friday, 25 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the May issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue Concretopia; The Making of the Modern British Home By Joe Moran Posted 25th April 2014, 9:10 Architecture The Making of the Modern British Home The Suburban Semi & Family Life Between the Wars Peter Scott Oxford University...
Excavation efforts in the Great Kitchen at Durham Cathedral has uncovered a vast amount of food waste. Mr Emery said that the kitchen was in use from the 14th Century up until the Second World War, catering for the monastic community, pilgrims and patients in the cathedral infirmary. “We have come across a vast amount ...
New genetic evidence casts further doubt on the authenticity of a grisly French relic: a gourd long believed to be stained with the blood of Louis XVI. ...
New research is challenging the traditional view that Neanderthal children had difficult and short lives. A research team from PALAEO (Centre for Human Palaeoecology and Evolutionary Origins) and the Department of Archaeology at York offer a new and distinctive perspective which suggests that Neanderthal children experienced strong emotional attachments with their immediate social group, used ...
An Iron Age mint has been unearthed in Leicester, England. Archaeologists believe the Blackfriars site could have produced some of the 5,000 silver and gold coins found in 2000, near the Leicestershire village of Hallaton. Senior project manager Nick Daffern said: “We’ve got over 20 coin moulds, which at an urban site like this is ...
Millions of dollars and the admiration of the art world can be had by a talent artist willing to sign someone else's name. ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the discovery of the remains of the SS City of Chester, a passenger steamer that went down in 1888 near the Golden Gate in San Francisco. ...
An investigation by Live Science throws into question the origin of the fourth-century papyrus thought to reveal Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married. ...
The Last Days of India's First Prime Minister History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 24 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: The Last Days of India's First Prime Minister By Charlotte Crow Posted 24th April 2014, 11:53 India In this episode of the History Today Podcast, we speak to Gyanesh Kudaisya about the final years of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, who died...
Twelve boats ranging in dates from the Bronze Age to the medieval period have been found in Lough Corrib in Ireland. The oldest of the vessels located, the 4,500-year-old Annaghkeen log boat, had already been lying on the bed of Lough Corrib for 3,500 years when the Vikings arrived, Capt Northage has pointed out. The ...
The new film "Heaven is for Real" relates a young boy's visit to heaven, though recent brain imaging research suggests a different explanation. Continue reading → ...
New scans carried out on the mummy of Tamut, a singer who sang in a Luxor temple in 900 B.C., have revealed short hair and clogged arteries. “She is astonishingly well preserved down to her short cut hair. She probably wore a wig as a high status individual. “There a number of amulets lying on ...
The 2,000-year-old stonemason's chisel may have been used in the construction of the holy site for both Muslims and Jews. Continue reading → ...
History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 23 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: British Pathe Puts Thousands of Films Online By Dean Nicholas Posted 23rd April 2014, 10:05 In what has become a trend (the New York Public Library and Wellcome Library have made simliar moves in recent months) British Pathé are the latest organisation to release their archive into the public domain ....
14,000-year-old stone tools found in Howburn are the earliest evidence of humans in Scotland. Primitive tools dug up by archaeologists in South Lanarkshire have been dated at 14,000 years old – making them the earliest evidence of humans in Scotland. The discovery follows a study of more than 5,000 flint artefacts recovered from fields at ...
An 18th-century painting that was stolen from a church in Poland two decades ago was recovered after it turned up for sale on eBay. ...
History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 22 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: This article is from the May issue of History Today , out now. More from this issue Antarctica: A Biography By Klaus Dodds Posted 22nd April 2014, 11:25 Antarctica A Biography David Day Oxford University Press, 64pp £25 David Day has written a proverbial ‘door stop’ of a book, deftly mapping how and where...
Trenches used to train troops for WWI have been uncovered in Norfolk, England. Describing his discovery Mr Day said: “We’re clearing years of accumulated leaf mould at the moment. “One of the trenches is about 7ft (2m) deep at the front, and as you go back into the supply lines goes to about 5ft (1.5m) ...
Infrared sensors attached to a remote-controlled drone have been used to identify nearly 60 households that make up the 11th century Puebloan Blue J community. The features revealed by the copter — or drone, as they call it — may reshape archaeologists’ understanding of the size, scope, and cultural affiliations of the Blue J community. ...
Ground sensors and satellites will be employed at the ancient city of Pompeii to help detect possible building collapses. Italian aerospace and defence giant Finmeccanica on Thursday said it was donating the technology to the culture ministry in a 1.7 million euro ($2.3 million) project entitled “Pompeii: Give it a Future”. The main aims are ...