AncientPages.com - On January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1846), a Catholic priest at the Academy of Palermo, Sicily, discovered a faint, distant object, correctly believing it to lie in

AncientPages.com - On December 30, 1924, American astronomer Edwin Hubble announced that there are other galaxies in the cosmos. Our home galaxy Milky Way is not alone; it has

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III is a limestone monument that celebrates thirty-one successful years of military campaigns by king Shalmaneser III and

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Thulamela is an intriguing ancient kingdom created by advanced ancient Shona people whose origin remains unknown. "Thulamela' means "place of birth" (or "the place

AncientPages.com - On 28 Dec 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière brothers presented their first film in Paris. The Lumière brothers, Auguste (1862 -1954) and Louis Jean (1864 -

AncientPages.com - On December 27, 1571, Johannes Kepler, 'Father of Modern Astronomy,' was born. His three fundamental statements about planetary motion represent his work, which he based on

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Is the mysterious Chinchorro culture related to an ancient unknown Atacama Desert civilization? What can new studies reveal about the world’s oldest mummies?  The

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bushido, which literally means "way of the warrior," is the code of chivalry developed by the warriors in feudal Japan known as the samurai.

AncientPages.com - On December 26, 1606, William Shakespeare performed his play 'King Lear' before the court of King James I at Whitehall Palace. Shakespeare's friend and noted fellow actor,

AncientPages.com - On December 24, 1165, William I, the second son of Henry of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, succeeded his brother Malcolm IV as King of Scotland. He was

AncientPages.com - On December 22, 1911, Grote Reber, amateur astronomer and radio engineer, was born in Chicago. He was a ham radio operator, studied radio engineering, and worked

AncientPages.com - Ancient Babylonians were excellent astronomers who wrote down their observations on cuneiform tablets. By studying ancient records of lunar and solar eclipses carved in clay tablets, dating back

AncientPages.com - On December 19, 1154, Henry II (also known as Henry Curtmantle) was crowned King of England. Henry II was born in 1133 in France and was the

AncientPages.com - On December 18, 1888, the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, Colorado, was discovered by rancher Richard Wetherill (1858- 1910) and his brother-in-law Charlie Mason, who was

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ophir was famous for its magnificent gold. It was a Biblical El Dorado from where King Solomon received a cargo of gold, silver, sandalwood,

AncientPages.com - On December 15, 1612, Simon Marius (1573 - 1624), a mathematician and astronomer, independently rediscovered the "Nebula in the Girdle of Andromeda," actually the Andromeda Galaxy (M31).

AncientPages.com - On December 13, 1577, Francis Drake set sail from Plymouth with a five-ship flotilla on the dangerous path that killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan 50 years earlier.

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Jersey have discovered that despite globally significant changes in climate and landscape Neanderthals kept visiting La Cotte de St Brelade,

AncientPages.com - On Dec 12, 627 AD, the Battle of Nineveh was fought between the forces of the Byzantine Empire, under Emperor Heraclius, and those of the Sassanid Persian

AncientPages.com - On December 11, 1792, King Louis XVI of France was put on trial for treason by the National Convention. Louis XVI (also known as Louis Capet)

AncientPages.com - On December 9, 1824, the Battle of Ayacucho was fought on the high plateau near Ayacucho, Peru. It was one of the Latin-American wars of independence, and