In Novgorod, Russia, in the 13th century, children also liked to express themselves. This was the case with little Onfim who was around 6 or 7 years old when he decided to scribble everywhere using a sharp-tipped object, unintentionally creating a beautiful archaeological record of medieval life in
In addition to documentary records, researchers have found traces of Viking nutrition in bones, ancient sewer systems and rubbish waste. They found that they were also afflicted with worms and food poisoning from consuming inappropriate or contaminated items. As meat was very present in Viking meals
Historian Robson Eleutério is launching the book “Paths and descaminhos in Central Brazil:history in the Federal District region”. The work presents the successive population occupations of the Brazilian Central Plateau from prehistory to the inauguration of the current capital of the country. It is
The Epic of Gilgamesh it is undoubtedly one of the most important writings in the history of mankind, the first truly complex and of considerable length. But it is also, above all, the first great story we know. Surely before the brave Sumerian king, there were many other heroes who performed grea
In March, according to Ovid, the feast of Bacchus , identified with the Roman Liber, the god of wine and vines. He was also identified with the Dionysus Greek, a very local god, but with an oriental appearance, surrounded by satyrs and maenads, in his chariot pulled by tigers and panthers. He was
The first attack of Viking warriors in Ireland, against Rathlin Island , on the north coast, took place in 795 and raids followed one another, with uneven intensity, for the next forty years. Most Viking activity in Ireland originated in present-day Norway or from Norwegian settlements in the North
The battlefield of Bailén It has an approximate extension of 2 kilometers from east to west and 3 kilometers from north to south. The western zone, where the French army was deployed, has been the least affected by urban transformations. In addition, in 2002, the Junta de Andalucía included the Huer
In a not well-known passage from Book II of your Geography , Strabo recounts the eventful story of one of the greatest navigators of Antiquity, Eudoxo de Cícico . By happy chance, Eudoxus, ambassador of his city to the court of Pharaoh Ptolemy VIII Evérgetes (146-117 BC), had come across an Indian c
The episode occurred in 632 BC. C. Cylon , son-in-law of the tyrant Theagenes of Megara, a city very close to the capital of Attica, had become a prestigious character for his victory at Olympia. Herodotus (V, 71) and Thucydides (I, 126, 8-11) speak of his adventure. With the support of the Megarian
The National Archeology and Paleontology Award Palarq Foundation award it aims to recognize the excellence and originality of Archaeological or Palaeontological projects, directed by Spanish research teams, and developed both nationally and internationally, without restrictions of cultures or histor
Since ancient times it grew –in a vague place in the east Andalusian– an olive tree that ripened olives in a single day. Its oil had powerful, almost miraculous, healing qualities. Pilgrims flocked to pluck them on harvest day. They said that it was planted on the tomb of a Christian Holy Man, next
To understand the conquest of Mexico we must know the important role that the indigenous allies had in the whole process and that these are not reduced to the tlaxcaltecas , had a great diversity of allies, among them the Tarascans, who came to play such an important role and for this reason are the
As we did last year with the First Edition of the Desperta Ferro Historical Microessay Contest, we once again give a voice to our followers and readers, because we are sure that behind a great reader there is a potential writer, in our eagerly awaited II Edition of the Desperta Ferro Historical Micr
Since the fall of the Roman Empire we have witnessed an atomization of the political space that entails a desperate lack of documents. Of the first king of Asturias we do not have any reliable source that tells us about his origins and that he was contemporary with his early years, in addition, as G
Another aspect to highlight is its meaning in context Spanish and European. Not in vain did it have the character of a crusade, and as such it had papal support and the participation of troops from beyond the Pyrenees, who were known as the ultramontane . For this reason, although it compromised the
In the context of this persecution, one must place the martyrdom of the Bishop of Tarraco, Fructuoso , along with his deacons Augurio and Eulogio. The three clerics were sentenced to damnatio ad vivicomburium[1] in the Tarragona amphitheater on January 21, 259. The entire process is narrated in the
The Henchir Hnich site It is located in the former imperial province of Proconsular Africa, in the middle valley of the Bagradas, about 110 km southwest of the current city of Tunis, and constitutes a rural settlement linked to imperial property. Although today it is a sparsely populated agrarian re
This investigation, at an early stage in the Northwest of Argentina, is part of a comparative study program, consisting of describing and explaining the effects that the Hispanic colonizations had on different peasant systems at the time of the conquests, halfway between the late Middle Ages and the
The archaeological Mayan culture developed between the middle of the second millennium before Christ and the arrival of the Spaniards in an extensive territory made up of the Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, Tabasco, Quintana Roo and Chiapas, as well as Guatemala, Belize, part of Honduras and El
The second half of the 20th century was a revolution with regarding our knowledge of human origins, positioning the African continent as the cradle of humanity, an idea that has persisted to this day. It was the researchers Mary and Louis Leakey who began systematic archaeological work in the Olduva
At the end of the 18th century, cuneiform writing was a mystery to European historians. The first to report strange writing carved on temples and clay tablets it was the Venetian ambassador Giosafat Barbaro, who in 1474 had been in Persepolis. Then in 1598 Robert Shirley found the monumental Behistu
In Central America, during the classical period, many pyramids became funerary monuments. And are encapsulated in each other, like Russian dolls! The Temple of Kukulcan at Chichen Itza conceals two nesting pyramids. Rising up to the sky, La Danta (tapir, in Spanish) dominates the emerald canopy o
Ongoing research should be able to put an end to the enigma concerning the occupant of tomb KV55, in the Valley of the Kings. Epilogue to a controversy over 100 years old. Statue of Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), the heretic pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. GOLD LEAVES. It is a mystery over 110 years
On the border between the Russian Federation and Mongolia, in the mountains to the south of Tuva, there is a large complex of clay buildings called Por-Bajin. Its located on an island in a lake, and until now archaeologists werent sure who built it and what its purpose was. What they did know is tha