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A historian discovers a secret Helvetian army functioning within the Roman Empire.
According to a recent research by historian John Ma of Columbia University, there was indications of a covert army functioning inside the Roman Empire in the first century AD. The study, which was published in the Journal of Roman Studies, casts doubt on the conventional wisdom that the Roman Empire totally absorbed and ruled over every society it subjugated.
By Francis Dami6 months ago in History
On the chest of an Egyptian child mummy, a hidden mystery object was found.
While studying a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy, Polish archaeologists uncovered an amazing finding. Intriguing doubts concerning the boy's identity and prehistoric burial customs were raised when scientists found a hidden object resting on his chest during the first-ever thorough scientific examination of the ancient remains. The discovery is already changing our understanding of Ptolemaic Egyptian funeral traditions.
By Francis Dami6 months ago in History
The Key to Long-Term Economic Success May Be in a Lost Mediaeval Village
According to recent research, the "rubbish" left behind in a defunct mediaeval village in a remote part of Yorkshire may provide insights into how cultures attain sustained "green" success. Wharram Percy, a once-thriving village on a steep chalk hillside, is reduced to a grassy mound and a destroyed stone church.
By Francis Dami6 months ago in History
On a 2,000-year-old Karnak stele, Roman Emperor Tiberius is shown as Pharaoh.
At the Karnak temple complex in Luxor, Egypt, a remarkable 2,000-year-old sandstone stele representing the Roman emperor Tiberius as an Egyptian pharaoh has been discovered. Fascinating insights into how Roman emperors attempted to legitimize their power by assimilating into Egypt's ancient religious traditions can be gained from this discovery, which was uncovered during the renovation of a massive entrance.
By Francis Dami6 months ago in History
Cuneiform Tablets Show That the Legendary King Gilgamesh Was Real
Researchers have now finished a thorough examination of the artefacts, more than a century after the National Museum of Denmark started collecting a sizable collection of inscribed clay tablets from the ancient Near East. "Hidden Treasures: The National Museum's Collection of Cuneiform Tablets," a ground-breaking effort, has digitised and catalogued these ancient manuscripts for the first time.
By Francis Dami6 months ago in History
Research Disproves the Legend of the Herlaugshaugen Ship Burial
One of Scandinavia's oldest ship graves is located at the Herlaugshaugen burial mound on the island of Leka, off the coast of Norway, according to a recent study. The discovery, which dates to approximately AD 700, provides a crucial chronological connection between the later, well-known Norwegian ship mounds of the Viking Age and the well-known early seventh-century ship burials of Anglo-Saxon England, most notably Sutton Hoo.
By Francis Dami6 months ago in History
Weapons from the Caste War Discovered Submerged in Yucatán Cenote
Weapons from the Caste War Discovered Submerged in Yucatán Cenote An incredible collection of 19th-century weapons has been discovered in a submerged archaeological site located deep beneath the Yucatán Peninsula. A wide variety of artefacts concealed below the Síis Já cenote, situated beneath the Ex Convento de San Bernardino de Siena in Sisal, Valladolid, have been documented by archaeologists from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
By Francis Dami6 months ago in History
Moon Landing was Real: A Commentary
The Eagle Landed There shouldn’t be any questions about the moon landing’s authenticity. When the “Eagle” landed on the surface of the moon in July, 1969, the world was watching. While being one of the most significant moments in history (some will call it the greatest), it also became one the most documented events up to that point. Live TV coverage and audio recording captured the very moment the first two men took a giant leap for mankind on a distant world.
By Dean Traylor6 months ago in History
Are Aliens Coming to Earth
Three weeks before NASA went completely silent on the subject, a classified radio signal — non-random, perfectly structured, and repeating every night at exactly 3:17 AM — was picked up from a point in deep space that should have been completely empty. My father was the one who found it. And then he disappeared.
By imtiazalam6 months ago in History
The Man Who Saved THe World
On the night of September 26, 1983, the world was sleeping, entirely unaware that it was balanced on the edge of a knife. The Cold War was at its most volatile point in decades; tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were simmering just below a boil. Inside a top-secret bunker south of Moscow, known as Serpukhov-15, the atmosphere was thick with the hum of electronics and the heavy weight of responsibility. The man in the command chair that night was Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov. He wasn't even supposed to be there; he was filling in for a colleague on the night shift, overseeing the "Oko" early warning satellite system.
By Edge Words6 months ago in History
The Fall of Flight 123
It was the week of Obon, a sacred Japanese tradition dedicated to honoring one’s ancestors and reuniting with family. At Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, the terminal was a sea of movement as thousands of people scrambled to catch flights back to their hometowns. Among the crowd were 524 souls boarding Japan Airlines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 destined for Osaka. It was a short, forty-minute hop, and for the aircraft, this was its fifth trip of the day. The pilots, led by 49-year-old Captain Masami Takahama, expected nothing more than a routine flight as they took off at 6:12 p.m., watching the sprawling Tokyo skyline fade beneath a blanket of clouds.
By Edge Words6 months ago in History
