The Hidden Diary of Samuel Pepys

Medieval Fogge: In Defence of the Middle Ages JamesHoare Tue, 05/20/2025 - 09:14

A rare gilded Anglo-Saxon cross that may have belonged to a church leader has been acquired by the Leeds Museums and Galleries. The cross is was made of solid silver completely covered with a thin lay

The Victorians, Creation, and the Dinosaur Problem JamesHoare Tue, 05/20/2025 - 08:00

TEL MEGIDDO, ISRAEL—According to the Greek Reporter, mysterious pig remains buried at the site of […] The post Evidence of Roman Soldiers' Pig Sacrifice Identified in Israel appeared first on

HAMBURG, GERMANY—Workers unearthed 30 Late Bronze Age funerary urns during installation of a drainage channel […] The post Bronze Age Urnfield Necropolis Discovered on German Road appeared fir

PAROS, GREECE—In ancient Greece, marble from the Cycladic island of Paros was a much sought-after […] The post Greek Sculpture Workshop Uncovered in Paros appeared first on Archaeology Magazin

Roman women faced legal, ideological, and cultural limitations in several areas of their lives; deep-rooted traditions regarding the role of women in the Roman world resulted in pre-conceived views wh

‘Hitler’s Deserters’ by Douglas Carl Peifer review JamesHoare Mon, 05/19/2025 - 09:01

Philostratuss Heroikos, composed during the flourishing of the Second Sophistic, stands as a deeply layered literary and cultural artifact of the Roman Empire in the Severan period. Aitken and Maclean

The Sarcophagus of the Spouses, a terracotta sarcophagus from the 6th century B.C. that is the most iconic masterpiece of Etruscan art, is undergoing an comprehensive new restoration in public view. T

The Museum of Chelmsford has acquired the Great Baddow Hoard, the largest recorded hoard of Iron Age gold coins ever found in Britain. It very nearly disappeared before it was even known to exist, but

A Roman octagonal finger ring that looks like a nut without threads has been discovered is a former drainage ditch in Lincolnshire during an excavation by Wessex Archaeology. It is a ring of the Henig

TEL MALHATA, ISRAEL—Haaretz reports that archaeologists uncovered rare and somewhat perplexing figurines from two 1,500-year-old […] The post African Figurines Found in Negev Desert Christian

WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA—The Wren Building is the oldest building on the campus of the College of […] The post Early History Unearthed on Campus of America's Second Oldest College appeared first

CHELMSFORD, ENGLAND—British authorities recently revealed a one-of-a-kind Iron Age coin hoard, according to a statement […] The post Britain's Largest Iron Age Gold Coin Hoard Revealed appeare

John Fletcher (1579-1625) was a playwright of the English Renaissance who flourished during the Jacobean Era (1603-1625). The author of over 50 plays, he is known for developing the genre of tragicome

One of the most coveted projects of Italian colonial policy was to secure an African colony in the Mediterranean. For this reason, Italy fought and won the Italo-Turkish war of 1911-1912 for the contr

A copy of the Magna Carta in the Harvard Law School Library that was bought for $27.50 in 1946 has been identified as one of only seven known originals of King Edward I’s Magna Carta from 1300. This