MessageToEagle.com – A skeleton lying down with a jorum in his hand and a wine pitcher and bread on the side, is depicted on a beautiful, 2,400-year-old mosaic discovered

A. Sutherland – MessageToEagle.com – The Graeco-Bactrian Kingdom was located in the easternmost region of the Hellenistic world. This ancient kingdom covered Bactria (northern Afghanistan) and lands to

MessageToEagle.com – The first known police force was established in 400 BC in Athens, Greece. According to accounts from speech writer in Ancient Greece, Andocides and a Greek statesman and one of

Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Norse mythology is full of wonderful stories about powerful gods and goddesses, creative dwarves, ugly and funny trolls, mysterious places and strange magical objects.

MessageToEagle.com – Remains of a high-status woman buried about 4,500 years ago have been discovered by archaeologists at the archaeological site of Aspero —Caral civilization’s fishing town. The discovery provides new

MessageToEagle.com – On April 22, in 1509, Henry VIII took the crown as the ruler of all England. Henry VIII is best known for his six wives, whose fate

MessageToEagle.com – When two Polish heritage experts first restored the famed lion statue in Syria’s Palmyra in 2005, they never imagined they would see it smashed to pieces only

MessageToEagle.com – Recent discovery of surgical instruments and burial chambers unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Philadelphia in the Central Anatolia, Turkey indicates that the ancient city

MessageToEagle.com – Ancient Rome’s dictator and general Julius Caesar turned the Roman Republic into the powerful Roman Empire, but he had a lot of enemies. When he sent messages to

MessageToEagle.com – Almost two thousand years ago, the Zapotec people built the city at the top of the mountain. This mysterious and city, probably about 3000 years old,

MessageToEagle.com – On April 23, people in Ireland celebrate Brian Boru, one of their greatest heroes who became famous for chasing off the Vikings. Brian Boru was an Irish

MessageToEagle.com – April 21, 753 BC, is a mythological date when Rome is founded by Romulus, one of the twin brothers. In Roman mythology, Romulus and his twin brother

MessageToEagle.com – During the Pleistocene period, 2.5 million years ago to 11 thousand years ago giant bears weighing over 1,000 kg roamed both North and South America. These

MessageToEagle.com – We are all familiar with the names of the continents and their geographic location, but not everyone knows the history behind these names. If you are a

MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s Dawn spacecraft presents spectacular images of bright craters on the dwarf planet Ceres. The pictures were taken 386km (240 miles) from the surface of Ceres, during the

MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have now opened the 2,000-year-old coffin believed to belong to Liu He, the Marquis of Haihun, in a laboratory. The remains of the “Marquis of Haihun”

MessageToEagle.com – The mystery of how a lung from ancient French royalty became mummified has been solved after decades of uncertainty, according to an international team of researchers. In

MessageToEagle.com – On April 20, 1535, an atmospheric optical phenomenon known as the “Sun Dog” was observed over Stockholm. The painting that depicts the event was named “Weather sun”) (in Swedish: Vädersol)

MessageToEagle.com – Usually, when a site was occupied for only a short time before it was attacked and destroyed, it can act as a “time capsule”, which provides archaeologists with

MessageToEagle.com – A new study shows that Yiddish is thought to have been invented by Iranian and Ashkenazic Jews as they traded on the Silk Road and these findings provide

MessageToEagle.com – The ancient Egyptian world of belief was inhabited by a huge number of entities with supernatural powers. These creatures could play both malevolent and benevolent roles,

MessageToEagle.com – It’s well chronicled that wave after wave of Vikings from Scandinavia terrorised western Europe for 250 years from the end of the eighth century AD and wreaked

MessageToEagle.com – Anglo-Saxon burial site with about 150 graves of men, women and children along with jewelry, spears, knives and bone combs have been discovered at an army site,

MessageToEagle.com – On April 19, 1770, Captain James Cook spotted and claimed the East Coast of Australia Cook was born in north-east England in 1728, and in his late

MessageToEagle.com – The Pax Romana (‘Roman Peace’) was a period of relative peace and stability across the Roman Empire which lasted for over 200 years, beginning with the reign