Ancient Astronomical Alignments: Reading and Mapping the Stars at Early Advanced Civilization Sites
Getting your audio player ready… Many of the cuneiform tablets of Mesopotamia and hieroglyphs of Egypt make reference to the sun, stars, or planetary positions.
‘Demosthenes’ by James Romm review
‘Demo-cracy’: power/might of the demos. ‘Demo-sthenes’: strength to/for/with the demos. Demosthenes’ father may have been unimaginative – he had himself been named ‘Demosthenes’ – but
Indonesia’s Heroic History | History Today
When Indonesia’s former president Suharto died aged 86 in 2008, the nation began a week of mourning and conflicted reflection. It was, wrote the Jakarta
Did Sauropods Walk or Waddle?
Four feet long and made of plaster, a lifelike model of Diplodocus carnegii lurks atop one of the cabinets in the Sedgwick Museum of Earth
Kent Philpott and the Origins of Conversion Therapy
In the summer of 1967 thousands of young people descended on San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district in search of sex, drugs, and transcendence. For many the
The Ambassador, the Spy, and the Chocolatier
The prominence of the Dutch in global trade, combined with the industry of their press, made the 18th-century Dutch Republic an unrivalled news hub. Ambassadors
‘The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders’ by Laura L. Gathagan review
In 2019 I travelled to Caen in Normandy to visit the Abbey of Holy Trinity and accidentally attended a baptism. The church was built by
Why Ghosts Haunt England at Christmas but Steer Clear of America
Why Ghosts Haunt England at Christmas but Steer Clear of America A few years ago, the Downton Abbey Christmas special featured a ouija board which communicated a
Ancient Teotihuacan Writing System Cracked By Researchers
Ancient Teotihuacan Writing System Cracked By Researchers Danish linguists have achieved a breakthrough that could finally solve one of archaeology’s greatest mysteries by deciphering the
AD-X2: When US Politicians Took on Science
On the morning of 3 April 1953 employees reporting to the US National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Washington, DC, found a bouquet of two