It’s 1972, you are in your late teens, and you see a poster at your local railway station which promises…
This year’s Paris Olympics are the third to be held in the city – where the decision was made in…
Though only eight at the time, Graeme Stanford vividly recalls his experience during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in July…
For a thousand years, the Roman Forum was the epicenter of the Roman Empire. This symbolic center, known as the…
The Khmer Empire, also known as the Angkorian Empire, reigned over a substantial part of Southeast Asia from the 9th…
Walking through London’s Cheapside is a journey through history. From the Old English ceapan, meaning ‘to buy’ (and nothing to…
At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is…
In medieval Europe, the Catholic Church wielded immense power over the population, primarily through fear. The church used various methods…
The English medical practitioner John Bulwer wrote a treatise in 1644 that argued humans were natural ‘Arithmeticians’, capable of both…
More than 1,000 people walked in sacred silence through Milan, their black shirts illuminated by flaming torches. Those towards the…