A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Should you eat the food using five or three fingers? You should use a fork. At the beginning, a fork did not gain many
Don Wood – MessageToEagle.com – A huge sinkhole opened up unexpectedly in Rome revealing ancient streets around the Pantheon, a former Roman temple, now a Catholic church. The
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – A 5,000-year-old Anatolian sword was identified in a monastery on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni in the Lagoon City. A small
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – A new study reveals that late Neolithic Italians mastered much more complex metal technologies than previously thought. Scientists from Italy and the United
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Following the assassination of Domitian of the Flavian Dynasty (81–96) on September 18, 96, a new Emperor appeared on the same day. Domitian
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – When and where the first Hellenistic temple was constructed has long been a bit of archaeological puzzle, but the ancient and beautiful city
MessageToEagle.com – Our ancestors understood the importance of healthy teeth, but the methods and instruments used in ancient times vert far from far from pleasant. Historical evidence proves that
Thalia Lightbringer – MessageToEagle.com – Evidence has come forth from the Po Valley, San Daniele region of Italy that in the time of the Neanderthals, the region had something
MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists excavating in Arene Candide Cave have discovered evidence humans may have ritualistically “killed” pebbles to remove their symbolic power about 12,000 years ago. This discovery sheds
MessagetoEagle.com – On February 5, 62 AD Pompeii, an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples, was at the epicenter of an earthquake. The earthquake was approximately 7.5 in magnitude and may
MessageToEagle.com – During archaeological excavation, carried out in the S. Francesco Monastery at Lucca (Tuscany, Italy), a golden, centuries-old dental prosthesis was discovered in an ancient family tomb.
MessageToEagle.com – On November 1, 1512, the beautiful ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was shown to the public for the first time. The ceiling was commissioned by Pope
MessageToEagle.com – On September 15, 1616, the first public and free school for poor children in Europe was established on the initiative of Saint Joseph Calasanz. The school
MessageToEagle.com – On September 3, 36 BC, the fleets of Sextus Pompeius and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, off Naulochus, near Messina, Sicily met in the naval Battle of Naulochus.
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 – Dating back to 500 B.C., the Pyrgi gold tablets were discovered in 1964 in an excavation of a sanctuary in ancient Pyrgi, the port of the southern Etruscan
MessageToEagle.com – These strange mummies were found in the Italian city of Venzone, a small hamlet in the province of Udine. The first mummy was unearthed in 1647 and soon
MessageToEagle.com – Bjorn Ironside was the second eldest son of famous Sea King Ragnar Lodbrok. Bjorn Ironside is today remembered for his cunning tactics when his Viking warriors captured
MessageToEagle.com – On June 2, 1858, Comet Donati was first observed by an astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati at Florence, Italy. After the Great Comet of 1811, it was
MessageToEagle.com – The Man of Altamura is the most ancient Neanderthal ever discovered. The fossilzed skeleton was found in 1993 in the karstic cave of Lamalunga, near the town of
MessageToEagle.com – In 256 BC, during the First Punic War (264-241 B.C.) one of the greatest naval battles in history took place off the coast of Sicily, Italy. As
MessageToEagle.com – A few kilometers from Rome, there are ruins of the ancient city of Ostia, which by its historical importance and preservation is not inferior to Pompeii and
MessdageToEagle.com – Scarab beetles, which represent one of the oldest and widely used symbols, have played various roles in their interactions with humanity. They were important in religion, folklore, folk
A. Sutherland – MessageToEagle.com – About 3000 years ago, a mysterious people called the Etruscans, settled in a region of Central Italy was known as Etruria. Despite that
