Natasja AthertonCulture Who Were the Real 'Peaky Blinders'?smithsonianmag.com - Meilan Solly British screenwriter Steven Knight took inspiration from his father's stories of “incredibly well dressed,” “incredibly powerful” gangsters active in …
Natasja AthertonCulture 7 Reasons Alexander the Great Was, Well, Greathowstuffworks.com - Dave Roos When Alexander III of Macedon died in Babylon at just 32 years old, he ruled a territory that spanned three continents and covered nearly 2 million …
Natasja AthertonHistory Discovering Gilgamesh, the World’s First Action HeroNational Geographic - Francisco del Rio SanchezA self-taught scholar was responsible for finding the world’s first epic myth hidden among broken clay tablets in the British Museum. Recovered from Nineveh in the late 19th century, shattered clay tablets
Natasja AthertonCulture Indonesia's Ancient 'Hobbits' May Have Evolved Really, Really QuicklyAtlas Obscura - Isaac Schultz The specimen known as LB1 caused a stir in 2003, when its tiny skeleton emerged from a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. The little human, …
Natasja AthertonWar During WWII, the US Army did a massive survey to get soldiers' uncensored opinions — here's what they saidInsider - Christopher Woody In September 1940, World War II was a year old. The US was still a noncombatant, but it was preparing for a fight. That month, the US introduced the …
Natasja AthertonArt A Mayan Archaeologist Has Discovered 27 Previously Unknown Ancient Sites—All Without Ever Leaving His Computerartnet.com - Sarah Cascone A resourceful archaeologist has made the stunning discovery of 27 new ancient Mayan sites—all without ever leaving his desk. Takeshi Inomata, an …
Natasja AthertonHistory Prehistoric Downton Abbey: Bronze Age Germans Had Earliest Known Household Staffhaaretz.com - Ruth Schuster Debunking yet another misconception about the development of civilization, archaeologists have found evidence that equality within the home did not …
Natasja AthertonHistory The Puzzles of Thermopylaehistorytoday.com - Chris Carey The story of 300 Greeks withstanding the might of Persia at the Thermopylae pass is well known. But how accurate is it? And, with few sources, how …
Natasja AthertonCulture The mysterious ancient figure challenging China’s historyBBC Culture - By Alastair SookeA spectacular jade carving may hold the clue to an early society that predates what many historians believed to be China’s oldest, writes Alastair Sooke. A grimacing figure wearing an elaborate feathered
Natasja AthertonCulture Grave of the Lady in RedAtlas Obscura The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident. In summer of 1969 farmhands were digging on Egypt …
Natasja AthertonCulture The Grave of XYZAtlas Obscura The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black. They were a gang of four: bank robbers who …
Natasja AthertonHistory 7 controversial saints in historyhistoryextra.com - Rachel Dinning The 19th-century religious scholar and esteemed poet Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–90) will on Sunday be declared a saint by Pope Francis. A …
Natasja AthertonIcon version of the Flipboard logoHistory Travels Through Time: Ruthlessness and Richard IIIhistorytoday.com - KatieHolyoak Travels Through Time: Ruthlessness and Richard IIIHistory TodayOur latest podcast looks at the rise and fall of the House of York in 1483.
Natasja AthertonNews Ancient 'curse of the dancer' deciphered, revealing backstabbing rivalsFox News - LiveScienceA Greek engraving on a 1,500-year-old lead tablet discovered in the ruins of an ancient theater in Israel has finally been deciphered, revealing a curse that may rival the modern-day backstabbing between
Natasja AthertonHistory Lost Egyptian temple unearthed 2,200 years after it was built for King Ptolemy IVCNN - By Alice Johnston, CNN(CNN) — Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a long-lost 2,200-year-old temple thought to belong to Pharaoh Ptolemy IV. The ancient tomb structure was accidentally found by construction workers during
Natasja AthertonHistory Catherine the Great: fact and fictionhistoryextra.com - Rachel Dinning Ahead of a major new TV drama, Janet Hartley explores Catherine the Great’s life and considers whether there is any truth behind the scandals …
Natasja AthertonArchaeology New research turns Tasmanian Aboriginal history on its head. The results will help care for the landtheconversation.com - Ted Lefroy and David Bowman and Grant Williamson and Penelope Jones American farmer and poet Wendell Berry said of the first Europeans in North America that they came with vision, but not with sight. They came with …
Natasja AthertonCulture Found: An Elaborate Viking Graveyard at the End of a FjordAtlas Obscura - Isaac Schultz Norway is rife with fjords—deep, canyon-like inlets carved by glaciers that add some 10,000 miles to the country’s convoluted coastline—and at one …
Natasja AthertonCulture The Man Who Went to War With CanadaAtlas Obscura - Cara Giaimo In 1940, when he was 25 years old, Barna Norton went to a shipwrights’ shop in his hometown of Jonesport, Maine, and ordered a boat. It needn’t be …
Natasja AthertonHistory 15 Mind Blowing History Mysteries That Still Haven’t Been Solvedmedium.com - MILLEY CASEY The study of history is largely a practice in conjecture. For some events, we have first-hand written accounts. We know that the Magna Carta, for …
Natasja AthertonAncient History The Secret History of the Mongolsancient.eu - Mark Cartwright The Secret History of the Mongols is a chronicle written in the 13th century CE (with some later additions) and is the most important and oldest …
Natasja AthertonHistory Catherine the Great: the first woman to rule Russiahistoryextra.com - Amir Adhamy Was Russia's most renowned female ruler Catherine the Great – set to be played by actress Helen Mirren in a forthcoming TV series on Sky Atlantic – …
Natasja AthertonHistory Assyrians Came, Conquered, and Kicked Everyone Out: Tablets Reveal 2,700-year-old Relocationhaaretz.com - Philippe Bohstrom Two clay tablets found in Hadid recording loans and land sales in the seventh century B.C.E. indicate that most of the people living in the town, …
Natasja AthertonHistory Was Queen Mary, wife of George V, a kleptomaniac?historyextra.com - Rachel Dinning In the new Downton Abbey film, one storyline references a long-standing question: was Mary of Teck partial to stealing from the grand houses that she …
Natasja AthertonHistory The lost villages of the Derwent ValleyBBC Travel - By Helen MoatIn 2018, a hot, dry summer descended on the English Midlands, and as the waters of the Ladybower Reservoir fell, the lost village of Derwent emerged. It was all gone. The lanes of gritstone cottages, church
Natasja AthertonMachu Picchu Machu Picchu was built over major fault zones. Now, researchers think they know whysciencemag.org - Sid Perkins Archaeologists and architects alike have long wondered why 15th century Incans built the grand citadel of Machu Picchu in what is now Peru where they …
Natasja AthertonCulture The Japanese Ghost Town Buried Deep in a Canadian ForestAtlas Obscura - Reina Gattuso At first, it didn’t look like much: a clearing about an hour’s walk into the dense forest of British Columbia’s Seymour Valley, with some rusted cans …
Natasja AthertonArt The 'kidnapped' Caravaggio: how the mafia took a razor blade to a masterpieceThe Guardian - Lorenzo Tondo in PalermoA Caravaggio masterpiece stolen from a Palermo church 50 years ago and listed among FBI’s “most wanted” stolen artworks, was kept in the home of a powerful mafia boss, who sliced off a piece of the canvas
Natasja AthertonAncient History 10 Inventions From China's Han Dynasty That Changed the Worldhistory.com - By Patrick J. Kiger When a commoner named Liu Bang became the first emperor of the Han Dynasty in 206 B.C., it was the start of a period of more than 400 years that was …
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