History

History

The axe was the most important find in the group and would have been highly valued in the Neolithic community. Experiments with fiddle bows have found that it takes more than a day of work to manufacture an axe like this one.

The journey begins at the Temple Mount, where Jesus is said to have taught daily and, according to the Book of Matthew 21:12-17, 'cleansed the temple' of merchants and money changers seven days before his death.

Casement was bequeathed, in Carroll's words, a fractured identity as the child of a Protestant father and a Catholic mother who were both dead by the time he was 12.

The first study analyzes canid remains from two sites: Pnarbas, on the Central Anatolian Plateau, and Gough's Cave, in Somerset, UK. The fragments from Pnarbas are extraordinarily small, but the team still managed to extract enough nuclear DNA to confirm that they were domestic dogs and not wolves.

This project demonstrates the combined power of science, the study of human remains and historical research to discover new information about the six mortuary chests and their occupants which would not have been available to us a generation ago.

The momoztli altar measures about one meter square and consists of three sections: a base of andesite quarry stone, a second section of larger slabs, and a top section of river stones and basalt.

This manuscript is intended to fill the gap between 'the doer and the thinker', and so should be expected to be an overview, especially as applies to the fine details of current archaeology.

Giulia Tofana started helping women achieve the arguably most peaceful option. With the help of her 30-something-year-old daughter and a local priest, Tofana created the 'Spana network,' an underground coalition of poisoners that helped women commit mariticide.

'Women fighting beasts in arena games are attested by the written sources, but no visual source is known to show their image,' author Alfonso Mañas wrote in the International Journal of the History of Sport.

The Strait of Hormuz is not an oil chokepoint. It is the aortic valve of globalised production and like any valve, when it fails, the entire circulatory system collapses.

"One must put himself in the period... crime had a certain familiarity from its repetition through time.... That's what they were like, unscrupulous. So was I. And since we are speaking about it, so was the Renaissance."

The financial accounts kept by the fabrique for Girona Cathedral provide exceptionally detailed records, allowing historians to calculate the total number of workers and the average employed per year.

The voyage of the crew in a 22.5-foot ship's boat through the 'Furious Fifties' is regarded by many historians as the greatest small-boat journey ever completed.

The section on sale is lot no. 1 of the 1983 staircase auction, measuring 2.75 meters high with 14 steps spiraling around a riveted sheet metal cylinder.

Selgin provides a measured investigation of FDR's efforts, focusing on economic analysis rather than personal stories of those affected by the Great Depression.

Egypt was one of the great crossroads of the medieval world, with many travelers journeying there and recording their impressions of the country and its people.

Zheng Yi Sao, born around 1775, grew up in Guangdong and married a pirate, demanding equal control of the Red Flag Fleet as a condition of their union.