“They stood up for the hillbillies who worked beside them to design and build the Saturn V, the only rocket of its kind that flew the first time and never failed.”
Len Bullard recently posted a moving account of man’s humanity to man:
I grew up in a town where I was born and to which 200000 [...]
“We can now shed light on one of the most intriguing mysteries of that period — how the Khazars actually lived.”
MOSCOW (AFP) — Russian archaeologists said Wednesday they had found the long-lost capital of the Khazar kingdom in southern Russia, a breakthrough for research on the ancient Jewish state.
“This is a hugely important discovery,” expedition [...]
Inspiring! Wintley Phipps tells the history of the song Amazing Grace, its roots in slavery. His rendition of the song gave me chills and brought tears. Hope you enjoy it too.
~Bonnee
by Rossitza Ohridska-Olson
The recent conflict between Georgia, South Ossetia and Russia is leaving behind a horror of human tragedies. Ethnic cleansing (such a horrible term) is garnished lavishly with humanitarian crises. And the rest of us watch without being able to do anything, except to send bottles of water, food and clothing.
What nobody seems to [...]
by Rossitza Ohridska-Olson (more about me in the end of the article)
In less than a day, two news affecting the Bulgarian cultural heritage hit the world wires: a sensational discovery of a completely preserved Thracian chariot by Dr. Daniala Agre, and almost complete loss of an ancient ship, thanks to the criminal indifference of [...]
“The first attempts are now being made to find some of those who were buried in mass graves in the 1960s and 70s.”
An hour or so north of Acapulco lies the town of Atoyac …. We had come to find its former army base.
… Up to 470 people are thought to have been tortured [...]
“In the 1920s O G S Crawford invented aerial archaeology, one of many services this eccentric Marxist misanthrope performed for the study of antiquity.”
- Jonathan Meades: Link
Bloody Old Britain: O G S Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life
By Kitty Hauser
Granta Books, 286pp
Amazon: Link
“Future archaeologists will perhaps excavate the ruined factories of the nineteenth and [...]
Here’s a fun fact for you history buffs. This look place 909 years ago today, if my math is holding up:
Reminder from:
AncientTactics Yahoo! Group
Title: The El Cid corpse ride.
Date: Thursday July 10, 2008
Time: All Day
Repeats: This event repeats every year.
Notes: Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (El Cid) died suddenly. Legend says [...]
PREFACE
During March 2000, I studied Art and Architectural History while visiting and traveling in Spain. I made a Video Film pilgrimage to Spain’s castles, palaces, cathedrals, monasteries, convents, mosques, holy sites, and museums in order to study Art and Architecture of designated UNESCO National Heritage Centers. “As time travelers, we were embarked on a [...]
To Western Orientalists, he was little more than a crude embarrassment, trying to take away the validity of their study simply because they were born into colonial countries, yet the specter of Edward Said still haunts the political and academic landscape today when discussing the study of history of the Middle East.
Christopher Clark does a wonderful service in clarifying the misunderstood history of what was once the powerhouse (both militarily and intellectually) of Europe from the 17th Century until just after the Second World War. Prussia was a sort of modern Spartan state, yet this region also gave birth to a vigorous Protestantism, philosophy in the [...]
A. P. David of More Intelligent Life Magazine writes two wonderful articles on the Father of Western History:
Reading Herodotus
Herodotus and Bad Fate
- Rudy Carrera.
This post is from the Xinhua News Agency of China, and was noted by Luigi Kapaj, who is owed thanks for posting this on a Mongol newsgroup:
April 03, 2008
Mongolia issues dictionary for “Secret History of the Mongols”
A total of 200 copies of a dictionary for “Secret History of the Mongols”
were published recently in Ulan Bator, [...]
Archaeologists have discovered human DNA in coprolites — fossilized feces — dating back fourteen thousand years:
Archaeologists knew about Oregon’s Paisley Caves back in the late 1930s. These shallow caves were carved into a hillside by a prehistoric lake. Inside, they found animal bones, stone tools and other signs that humans camped or lived there. But [...]
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