27 Jul Unmerciful Diets of Ancient Sea Monsters Of The Northern Abyss By ashley cowie Mythology & Mystery 0 Unless having been to sea, far enough out to lose sight of land on an open wooden craft, no-one would quite understand the terror endured by ancient seafarers braving the unknown oceans. Read More
29 Jul Topkapi Palace, Showcasing Ottoman Splendor And Opulence By micki pistorius History & Tradition 0 Centuries before Versailles, Buckingham Palace and the Kremlin Palace, on the shore where the Western world meets the East, cupped by the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus Strait and the Golden Horn, there rose a palace of such splendor Read More
01 Aug Measuring Up The Mega And Mini-Henges Of Neolithic Britain By ashley cowie Archaeology & Science 0 The dictionary description of a ‘henge’ as “a circular area, often containing a circle of stones or sometimes wooden posts, dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages,” fails to depart that these circular or oval earthen enclosures dating from around 3000 BC to 2000 BC - the Neolithic or ‘new Stone Age and early Bronze Age Read More
03 Aug Triumph, Rebellion And The Ancient History Of Ukraine By Jake Leigh-Howarth History & Tradition, Politics & Social Structure 0 Ukraine has always been a complicated place, with one foot in the West and the other in the East, resulting in a unique tension as a constantly contested borderland, a battleground, pitting the tribes of Europe against the expansionist dynasties of Asia Read More
05 Aug The Many Incarnations Of Hagia Sophia In Istanbul By Dr Marion Dolan History & Tradition 0 Read More
08 Aug King Sargon Of Akkad As The Second-Coming Dumuzi By Willem McLoud Archaeology & Science 0 Sargon the Great of Akkad (fl. c. 2370-2314) is one of the greatest heroes of ancient Mesopotamian history, the one who founded the Akkadian Empire (c. 2370-2190), the very first world empire. Read More