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
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
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
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
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Indian archaeologists have discovered that hemp – a mix of hemp with clay and lime plaster – has prevented the famous ancient Ellora caves from degrading over the 1,500 years they have been in existence.
AncientPages.com – The remains of an Anglo-Saxon island – home to a Middle Saxon settlement – have been uncovered at Little Carlton near Louth, Lincolnshire by archaeologists from the University of Sheffield. One of the most important archaeological finds in decades, settlement
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – The Tarkhan Dress, a V-neck linen shirt, has been confirmed as the world’s oldest woven garment, with radiocarbon testing dating the garment to the late fourth millennium B.C. Tarkhan is one of the most important
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Medieval Norse-Icelandic sagas are filled with tales of mead-drinking Norse Gods and beautiful Valkyries serving refreshments to fallen warriors in Valhalla. Valhalla – Herb liquer by Koskenkorva. Credit: Tero Nummelin – CC BY-SA 3.0 Similarly,
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The ancient stone circle known as ‘Stones of the Sun (In Irish, ‘Lios na Grainsi’) was built around 2000 BC by the people who brought metal and beaker pottery to Ireland around 2500 BC. It
AncientPages.com – A Roman-Byzantine grave has been unearthed during the restoration of the historic Casa Garibaldi building on Istanbul’s famous Istiklal Avenue, Turkey The grave was found when a worker discovered a 1,600- to 1800-year-old skull eight meters under the surface.
