The discovery in 1879 by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola of the paintings in the Altamira Cave , two kilometers from the town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, is the most important moment in modern archaeological research and at the time involved a total revision of the perception of the life and cust
The defeat at Salamis dismayed Xerxes. Mardonius, the mastermind behind the Persian invasion of Greece begged Xerxes to withdraw. He himself would remain with 300,000 elite soldiers behind and conquer Greece the following summer. Xerxes was soon convinced and left, with the army suffering terribl
After the death of the King of England, Edward the Confessor , and breaking the agreement that he had signed with the Duke of Normandy, William , Harold was made king . In 1066, claiming a legitimate claim to the island, William invaded England. On October 14 the Saxon and Norman forces met at Has
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets The story of Robin Hood and his Saxon archers harassing the dominant Norman forces of John Landless and the Sheriff of Nottingham from Sherwood Forest has been the subject of repeated attention by literature and cinema and is well known. Also in the backgro