Sometimes all it takes is a ‘strategic’ collaboration between opposing parties to unveil the literary brilliance of our ancestors. Well, in 2011, the fortuitous partnership…
Back in 2006, archaeologists came across a 7,000-year-old mass grave, just 12 miles (around 20 kilometers) from Frankfurt in Germany. A reanalysis of the site…
The massive 54,000 sq ft Roman villa complex of Durreueli at Realmonte, in Sicily, is almost equivalent to the size of an American football field….
Amasra (derived from Greek Amastris) currently corresponds to an idyllic Black Sea port town in present-day Turkey’s Bartın Province. But hiding beneath this veneer of…
A few days ago, we talked about the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Sa-Nakt who is possibly the world’s oldest known human to display patterns of gigantism…
Previously in Realm of History, we had covered a variety of world’s oldest stuff, ranging from bizarre masks to prosthetic limbs. Well this time around,…
A sporting rivalry between two cities turned tragic when a simple incident at a gladiatorial clash turned into a full fledged riot. We are talking…
Historically, Sa-Nakt (or Sanakht/Hennekht) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom (circa 2700 BC), with his reign corresponding to…
In one of our previous articles, we talked about how the earlier Mycenaean artworks, architectural patterns and military arms, circa 1600–1450 BC, were very much…
“We’re unbelievably lucky. This is undoubtedly the most exceptional excavation of a Roman site in 40 or 50 years” – this is how Benjamin Clement,…
