AncientPages.com – On February 22, 1784, the 52nd birthday of President George Washington, a wooden ship was constructed and named “The Empress of China.” As the first voyage between China and the US, this ship embarked on its maiden journey from
AncientPages.com – For generations, Okinawans potters produced fascinating pottery, of which fragments are still being unearthed. A fragment of pottery, which is believed to have come from earthenware, was unearthed about six years ago in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It features maze-like
AncientPages.com – On February 21, 1437, James I of Scotland was killed in Perth on February 21, 1437, but the exact location of his grave is unknown today. Statue of King James I, Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Image credit: Stephencdickson – CC
AncientPages.com – A few months ago, a sarcophagus at an olive grove, belonging to the Late Antiquity period, was discovered in Turkey’s western Bursa province. Archeologists have studied of the sarcophagus and dated it to the second century AD. Made out
AncientPages.com – On February 20, 1901, the Russian Orthodox Church censored Count Leo Tolstoy, the famous Russian writer, because his public statements contradicted the articles of orthodox belief. Both state and church authorities led Tolstoy to be frequently censored. Tolstoy
AncientPages.com – On 19 February 197, the Battle of Lugdunum was fought between the armies of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus and of the Roman usurper Clodius Albinus. Severus refused to share power with Albinus, who simply wished to be named heir and had
AncientPages.com – On February 18, 1478, George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, who conspired against his brother, Edward IV, during the Wars of the Roses, was convicted of treason and executed in private at the Tower of London. Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Ed. Vol
AncientPages.com – On February 17/18, 1370, the Teutonic Knights fought the army of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and won. This military encounter is known in history as the Battle of Rudau. Lithuania suffered significant losses. Historical map of the Religious State
AncientPages.com – On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter (1873 – 1939), an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, unsealed and opened the burial chamber of the thirteenth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, who ruled c. 1332 – 1323 BC. The tomb of King Tutankhamun, located about 562 km
AncientPages.com – On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter (1873 – 1939), an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, unsealed and opened the burial chamber of the 14th-century pharaoh King Tutankhamun in the tomb (KV62) in the Valley of Kings near Cairo in Egypt. Carter and one of
AncientPages.com – On February 15, 1898, at 9:40 p.m., the USS Maine exploded, killing 260 men aboard. Public opinion in the United States, urged on by the yellow press, assumed that Spain was responsible for plotting the treachery. However, an
AncientPages.com – On February 14, 1779, James Cook was killed by a mob on the Sandwich Islands (now called Hawaii). At the time, he was trying to take the local chief hostage to get the natives to return a stolen
AncientPages.com – On February 13, 1578, Tycho Brahe first sketched the “Tychonic system,” a modified geocentric model in order to explain the motions of bodies in the Solar System. Tycho Brahe’s Stjerneborg from Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior, Amsterdam 1662, vol. 1. Creator:
AncientPages.com – Some years ago, archaeologists uncovered beautifully preserved, 1,000-year-old Viking boat burial in Scottish Highlands. It is today known as the Ardnamurchan boat burial. Inside a 5m-long grave that contained the remains of a powerful, high-status Viking, who was buried
AncientPages.com – King Arthur is one of, if not the most legendary icons of medieval Britain. His popularity has lasted centuries, mostly thanks to the numerous incarnations of his story that pop up time and time again. Indeed, his is one
AncientPages.com – On February 12, 712, Du Fu, titled “The Sage of Poetry,” was born in today’s Gong County in Henan Province, China. Fu was a great personality and today is considered one of the greatest poets of all time. He
