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 – In Brittany’s fairy folklore, there is a frightening spirit Ankou (“death”) who is almost identical to the Grim Reaper, often mentioned in the fairy tales that originate
MessageToEagle.com – An old legend tells the hair of Queen of France Marie Antoinette turned white within hours the night before she was guillotined. It presumably happened as a
MessageToEagle.com – Titan’s tallest peak is 10,948 feet (3,337 meters) high and is found within a trio of mountainous ridges called the Mithrim Montes, according to a new study
MessageToEagle.com – The first battle of Gaza took place on 26 March 1917. The city of Gaza was the center of the main Turkish defensive position in southern Palestine. The first
MessageToEagle.com – Today, modern physicists try to unravel the mystery of time. Was there a beginning of time, and will there be end of time? The riddle of time
MessageToEagle.com – Karakorum was first settled about 750. In 1220, Genghis Khan, the great Mongol conqueror, founded his headquarters there and used it as a base for his invasion
MessageToEagle.com – For the first time, the contents of a pot of Viking treasure have been revealed after being buried in a field in Galloway. Although the objects are not currently
MessageToEagle.com – On March 25, 1655, Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch amateur astronomer, discovered Saturn’s satellite Titan, named for its great size (half that of the Earth’s) and thought to
MessageToEagle.com – Solar storms are triggering X-ray auroras on Jupiter that are about eight times brighter than normal over a large area of the planet and hundreds of times
MessageToEagle.com – The forest is a very special place, where the passage of time ceases to have any meaning. It simply does not exist. Each forest has its own
MessageToEagle.com – An ancient rune stone from Thy, Denmark has been missing for 200 years. Over the years archaeologists have made several attempts to locate the unique, thousand-year-old stone,
MessageToEagle.com – A 3,000-year-old ox bone – inscribed with the earliest-known example of Chinese writing – has become the world’s first ‘oracle bone’ to be scanned and printed in
MessageToEagle.com – On March 24, 1401, Turco-Mongol emperor Timur, who in English became known as Tamburlaine, sacked the ancient and civilized town of Syria – Damascus, the second city of
A. Sutherland – MessageToEagle.com – About 5,000 years ago, Los Millares, was the biggest and most important town in Europe. The ruins of the city of Los Millares are
MessageToEagle.com – Medieval remains of Partick Castle have been unearthed during recent archaeological fieldwork in Glasgow, conducted by a team of archaeologists from GUARD Archaeology. Based on historical evidence, it
MessageToEagle.com – On March 23, 2001, the Russian space station “Mir” ceased to exist. After floating in space for 15 years, Russian mission control fired engines on a rocket
MessageToEagle.com – The Maya Blue has been a scientific puzzle mainly due to its unusual chemical composition. Maya blue is an extremely resistant artificial pigment. Despite time and the
MessageToEagle.com – Tristan da Cunha is a 38-square-mile volcanic outpost and the remotest inhabited island in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records. It’s situated 1,510 miles southwest of
MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have observed an extrasolar planet about 117 light-years from earth that boasts the most eccentric orbit yet seen. A team led by San Francisco State University
MessageToEagle.com – On 22 March 871, the Battle of Marton (or Meretum) was fought at a place recorded as Marton, possibly in Wiltshire or Dorset, England. Alfred the Great (849-899),
MessageToEagle.com – When the shoreline receded during the 2004 tsunami, tourists in Mamallapuram swore they saw a long row of granite boulders emerge from the sea, before it was
MessageToEagle.com – A remarkable archaeological discovery in a Co. Clare cave has pushed back the date of human existence in Ireland by 2,500 years. This discovery re-writes Irish archaeology
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – There are many crimes in ancient Greek myths. This story is about a terrible crime committed by forty-nine maidens, who were later punished for
MessageToEagle.com – An amateur archaeologist in Denmark has made the discovery of his life. While searching for ancient artifacts with his metal detector he came across a beautiful, small
