Heritage

The Samnites were an Italic civilisation who lived in Samnium, a region of Southern Italy that includes the present-day Abruzzo, Molise and Campania.

William Wallace was a Scottish knight and military leader during the First War of Scottish Independence, portrayed in the 1995 American film, Braveheart.

The term "clan" is derived from the Gaelic word “clann”, meaning family or children, however, it is a misconception that persons who bear a clan’s name is a lineal descendant of the clan chief (ceannard cinnidh) or hereditary family.

The North End of Boston, Massachusetts was the sight of one of the strangest and most unbelievable tragedies in modern history.

Most of what we know about the Iron Age druids comes from Roman sources, describing a learned class of priests, teachers and judges, who performed Druidic rites in forest clearings and offered human sacrifices to the gods.

Atlantis has become a taboo subject in many scholarly circles, often branded in pseudo-science and invented interpretations from Plato’s dialogues.

Sunstones have been described in Viking tales from the 13th–14th century AD, used as a navigation tool for transatlantic crossings to the new lands of Greenland and Iceland, and possibly even North America, as confirmed by the discovery of the archaeological site of l’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland in 1960.

The small Puritan town of Salem was the site of one of the darkest times in Massachusetts’ history, where several townsfolk became afflicted by, what could only be described as witchcraft.

With some 7,000 islands and cays and a 7,000-year history of human habitation, the Caribbean Sea is practically synonymous with maritime travel.

Flags are mainly used as international symbols to represent a people or a nation, or for nautical and aerial communication.

Hungarian man living in Wales is doing a 1000-mile march across 22 counties to raise awareness of the challenges that the LGBTQAI+ community faces and to document people’s stories for Welsh heritage.

The word “Assassin” is a term that was used to describe a fedayeen group within the Nizari Ismailis State, formed when followers of Nizarism split within an Ismailism branch of Shia Islam.

In several Late Prehistoric Iberian sites across Western Europe, a tradition emerged using rock crystals to fashion micro-blades, arrow heads and daggers.

The following is an interview with Prof. Rita Lucarelli by Richard Marranca from Montclair State University about the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.

The Flor de la Mar, meaning “Flower of the Sea”, was a 400-ton three masted carrack, that sunk in 1511 whilst transporting a large cargo of treasure for the king of Portugal.