If Lower Manhattan’s Financial District was the center of American capitalism in the 1920s, then the southeast corner of Wall and Broad Streets was its most important junction. It was dominated by the headquarters of J.P. Morgan and Co., a financial leviathan that had come out of World War I as the most influential banking institution on the globe.
We know the big names - Cicero, Diodorus, Caesar, Livy - but we forget how periods in Rome's history were recorded by multiple people, mostly at the same...
A team of British archaeologists managed to identify remains preserved in a church in Folkestone, in the south-east of England, as belonging to Saint Eansvida, an Anglo-Saxon princess who lived between approximately 630 and 650 years and played a key role in the Christianization of Great Brittany.
It's sitting in front of Escuela Militar in Lima, Peru. Looks like a 1930's French or British tank/tankette (Bolivia used some UK tanks in a war in the 30s). Not in the AMR3x series as far as I c…
At the Battle of Tours near Poitiers, France, Frankish leader Charles Martel, a Christian, defeats a large army of Spanish Moors, halting the Muslim advance into Western Europe. Abd-ar-Rahman, the Muslim governor of Cordoba, was killed in the fighting, and the Moors retreated from Gaul, never to return in such force.
Although "the scientific evidence that the nails were used to crucify someone is strong," experts question their direct connection to the crucifixion of Jesus. Scientists have found fragments of ancient bones and wood in the nails that would have been used to crucify Jesus Christ, reports Haaretz.
A portion of the fortifications at the site of Mari, modern-day Tell Hariri, Syria. Mari's fortifications entered their most advanced stage in the 19th century BCE when the city and the rest of the...
