Hannibal crosses the Alps on an elephant. Credit: Nicolas Poussin Microbiologists based in the Institute for Global Food Security and School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast have recently released results that may have answered one of ancient history’s greatest enigmas: Where did Hannibal cross the Alps? Hannibal was the Commander-in-Chief of the Carthaginian […]
Homo Erectus Fossilized footprints. Photo: Sapienza University A team of Italian researchers have possibly uncovered the oldest ever fossilized footprint left behind by modern man’s ancestor, Homo Erectus. The prints are thought to date back some 800,000 years and were unearthed in the desert of south eastern Eritrea. “Their age is yet to be confirmed with certainty, […]
The Vikings’ ships were the greatest technical and artistic achievement of the European Dark Ages. Without these great ships the Viking Age would never had happened and the success of the Vikings would never have been as far-stretched. Unfortunately, very few remains of Viking ships have been discovered. One Viking ship that can provide us […]
Antiochus I, an Armenian king whose lineage connected him to the Seleucids, Ptolemies, and Macedonians, ruled the small territory of Commagene in Asia Minor in the 1st century B.C. In 64 B.C., Commagene became a Roman province when Antiochus reached a peaceful agreement with Pompey, who had just conquered Syria. Five years later the Roman […]
What are ‘Analemmas’?… a plot or graph of the position of the sun in the sky at a certain time of day (as noon) at one locale measured throughout the year that has the shape of a figure 8; also : a scale (as on a globe or sundial) based on such a plot that […]
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