AncientPages.com – On April 8, 1820, the Greek farmer Yorgos Kentrotas stumbled upon a damaged statue in a buried niche within the ancient ruins of Milos, Greece. Venus de Milo on display at the Louvre. Image credit: Shonagon – CC0 1.0
AncientPages.com – An ancient tomb dating back to the late Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25-220), nearly 2,000 years ago, has been found in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, according to local authorities. Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 CE) was one of
AncientPages.com – On April 6, 1320, the Declaration of Arbroath was drafted and sent to Pope John XXII as a letter. The document, written in Latin, declares Scotland’s independence and the right to defend herself if attacked. Declaration of Arbroath, 1320. Image
AncientPages.com – Silver adornments, which were most probably buried in the fall of 1688 during the so called Chiprovtsi Uprising, the largest rebellion of Bulgarian Catholics against the Ottoman Empire, have been unearthed near the city of Montana (then known as Kutlovitsa)
AncientPages.com – On April 5, 1242, the famous “Battle on the Ice” was fought on Lake Peipus between the Teutonic and Livonian Knights and the army of the Russian city of Novgorod, led by Prince Alexander Nevsky. Nevsky was admired
AncientPages.com – On April 4, 1581, Francis Drake was knighted after completing his world circumnavigation. Queen Elizabeth herself knighted him. He is documented as the second person in history to successfully circumnavigate the world. Drake receives knighthood from Queen Elizabeth. Bronze
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists may have discovered the second Viking site ever found in North America. It’s a truly significant historical find that offers tantalizing evidence of a Viking presence 300 miles from the only place in Canada they’d
AncientPages.com – On March 31, 1814, Tsar Alexander I of Russia, at the head of the Coalition Army, triumphantly marched into Paris, forcing Napoleon to abdicate a few days later. The Coalition armies, including Russian, Prussian, and Austrian, entered France
AncientPages.com – On 30 March 240 BC, the first recorded passage of Halley’s Comet was observed by Chinese astronomers in the Chinese chronicle ‘Records of the Grand Historian’ (or ‘Shiji’), which describes a comet that appeared in the east and
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – About 80 years ago, a mysterious bog body of an unknown man was discovered in Sweden. The corpse was labeled the Bocksten Man. The man met a brutal death. He had three stakes driven through
AncientPages.com – On March 28, 845, Paris was attacked by Vikings under the leadership of Ragnar Lodbrok, (nicknamed ‘Hairy Breeches’, referring to the animal-skin trousers that he wore. One of the most notorious of all the Viking heroes, Ragnar was not
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The First Persian Empire, also known as the Achaemenid Empire, was founded by Cyrus the Great, one of the most outstanding figures in human history. Winged sphinx from the Palace of Darius in Susa, Louver Museum.
AncientPages.com – Archaeologists at the University of York, leading a large international team, have revealed surprising new insights into why pottery production increased significantly at the end of the last Ice Age – with culture playing a bigger role than
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The legend of Prester John arose during the Crusades, when European Christians hoped to regain the Holy Land (Palestine) from the Muslims. Preste” as the Emperor of Ethiopia, enthroned on a map of East Africa
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Hnefatafl or tafl was an ancient Viking board game that became very popular in medieval Scandinavia. The Vikings played board games as early as 400 A.D. Hnefatafl was a war strategy game. The name means “King’s Table,”
AncientPages.com – Very little is known about England’s oldest printed Bible. It was published 1535 by King Henry VIII’s printer. There are only seven surviving copies and one of them is kept at the Lambeth Palace Library, London. Now, historians have
