MessageToEagle.com – While translating a very rare inscription on ancient Etruscan temple stone, archaeologists discovered the text was written in honor of the fertility goddess Uni, an important deity
MessageToEagle.com – When was the remote Australian continent first settled? Where did these ancient Australians come from? Was the island settled once, or on multiple occasions? Is there a
MessageToEagle.com – On August 27, 1783, the first experimental hydrogen-filled balloon leaves Champs de Mars, Paris, unmanned, and reaches a 900m altitude. The balloon had a 13ft (4m)
MessageToEagle.com – On the afternoon of August 26, 1883, Krakatoa erupted in 1883, in one of the largest, natural eruptions in recent time. Krakatoa is an island volcano
MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists excavating in Sweden, just outside Fröshult in the county of Uppsala have discovered a number of mysterious medieval graves and a place of sacrifice with many
MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists excavating at the Ring on Brodgar on Orkney, Scotland have unearthed a mysterious ancient structure that does not resemble anything else previously found in the area.
MessageToEagle.com – On 25 August 1609, exactly 407 years ago today, the Italian astronomer and philosopher Galilei Galileo showed Venetian merchants his new invention, a telescope, an important
MessageToEagle.com – Newspaper Rock is one of the finest and largest collections of Indian rock art to be found anywhere in the U.S. This fascinating petroglyph panel is
MessageToEagle.com – We know that the universe is roughly 14 billion years old, and that one day in the future the Universe will most likely cease to exist it
MessageToEagle.com – In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of Priam and Hecuba, the king and queen of Troy. Cassandra was the most beautiful of Priam’s daughters and
MessageToEagle.com – On the morning of August 24, 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted and broke its centuries-long silence. Its great cloud of hot ash, stones and poisonous gases completely
MessageToEagle.com – The giant squid was long considered to be true sea monster. Today, many people still believe in myths and legends about this extraordinary creature lurking beneath the waters.
MessageToEagle.com – According to a new study the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex has been misunderstood. An ancient astronomer, a Mayan version of ‘Copernicus’ observed Venus in the
MessageToEagle.com – On August 23, 1305, great Scottish hero William Wallace was hanged, drawn and cut into pieces. It was a traitor’s death. On this day William Wallace
MessageToEagle.com – A recent accidental discovery in Cambridge shows how widespread superstition was even among learned people and how far former residents went to protect themselves from evil
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – An almost 2,000-year-old large complex of temples, shrines, and monasteries known as Fengdu Ghost City is devoted to the afterlife. Many temples and shrines are decorated
MessageToEagle.com – On 22 August 1572, “Earl of Northumberland” Thomas Percy was executed because he was Catholic. Thomas Percy was a Catholic and lived when the Protestant Queen
MessageToEagle.com – The Kingdom of Aksum (Axum) also widely known as the Aksumite Empire, was an ancient civilization, which developed in one of the oldest continuously inhabited
MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have tried to solve the mystery of why large parts of Canada are missing gravity. In the in the 1960s when the Earth’s global gravity fields
MessageToEagle.com – On August 21, 1680, Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish. Pueblo Indians were a peaceful people who managed to endure much after New Mexico’s
MessageToEagle.com – It has now been proven that British megaliths were deliberately astronomically aligned with the Sun and Moon about 5,000 years ago. All across the world there are
MessageToEagle. com – On August 20, 1940, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was fatally stabbed by a pick of an ice axe in his skull. The next day
A. Sutherland – MessageToEagle.com – Under the city of Rome, there is a maze of long-forgotten ancient passages and temples; there are millennia-old underground burial chambers, which remember
MessageToEagle.com – A large number of ancient spherical stone artifacts were discovered in South Africa. What was the purpose of these artifacts? Were they used as tools, weapons or
MessageToEagle.com – World’s oldest dictionaries come from the Akkadian Empire. The dictionaries are about 4,500-year-old and were discovered in Ebla, one of the earliest kingdoms in Syria. They written