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"
The Burning of Archpriest Avvakum, by Grigoriy Myasoyedov, 1897. Alamy. Archpriest Avvakum Petrov spent the last 14 years of his life in a pit in Pustozersk, high above the Arctic Circle. Born around 1620, he… Read More "Martyrdom of an Old Believer"
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Why were young girls buried, adorned with fine gold jewelry, in Jerusalem in the Roman period? Photographer: Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority Impressive items of gold jewelry, discovered in past… Read More "Roman-Era Girl Buried And Adorned With 1,700-Year Old Gold Jewelry Found In Pagan Cave"
Expeditions have always been an integral part of human history, driving us to explore new frontiers and discover the unknown. From the ancient expeditions of our ancestors to modern-day scientific expeditions that explore the depths… Read More "Charting New Territories: 8 Pioneering Ancient Expeditions That Reshaped the World"