Heritage

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.

The New England vampire panic was a period of terror and mass hysteria during the 19th century, caused by an outbreak of consumption blamed on vampires in the states of New England, United States.

The Heritage Magazine, a new publication by the team behind the popular HeritageDaily website has launched to a world-wide audience.

A new study published in the Journal Scientific Reports has revealed that the recipe for Kohl was more diverse than previously thought.

Nabta Playa is one of the earliest recorded sites from the Egyptian Neolithic Period, located west of Abu Simbel in the Al Wadi Al Gadid Desert.

Spintriae are small brass or bronze tokens from the Roman period, depicting graphic scenes of sexual acts or symbols that range from I-XVI.

A study on the composition of Roman denarii has revealed a new understanding of a financial crisis in the Roman world, first mentioned by Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero during the 1st century BC.

A study led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and published recently in Science Advances, upends the previously accepted theory on why the Vikings abandoned Greenland.

Researchers have rebuilt a house from the Roman city of Pompeii using virtual reality, to better understand the motivations behinds Roman design and contemporary architecture.

The Jade burial suits are hand-crafted jade suits from the Han Dynasty of China, used for the ceremonial burials of China’s elite and members of the ruling class.

On February 24th 2022, President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” in Ukraine, when in reality, a full-scale invasion of Ukrainian sovereignty by Russian forces was unleashed, creating a humanitarian crisis that has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians and brought major population centres into the line of fire by indiscriminate Russian attacks.

At the end of the 19th century, the newly established Kingdom of Italy looked to secure its borders, with a focus on its maritime defences through the construction of a system of fortified structures.

In his heyday in the 1800s, Moses Roper was a well-known public figure. Roper, the first fugitive slave to lecture in Britain and Ireland, spoke to large crowds and his written account of his experience of slavery sold more than 40,000 copies.

The Hittites were an Anatolian people who established an Empire stretching across most of Anatolia, parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia, centred on the capital of Hattusa near modern Boğazkale, Turkey.

Vikings were not a uniform phenomenon in ancient Scandinavia. They were part of a complex system of a plunder economy that existed in Europe until the early Middle Ages.