The Carrington Event: The Solar Storm That Could End Modern Civilisation On the morning of the 1st of September 1859, a quiet English astronomer sitting in his private observatory in the small town of Redhill, Surrey, was doing what he did most mornings. He was carefully sketching the sunspots on the surface of the sun….
Roman Fast Food: The Incredible Street Food Culture Frozen in Time at Pompeii Culture Frozen in Time at Pompeii Roman Fast Food: The Incredible Street Food Culture Frozen in Time at PompeiiImagine walking through a busy city street, the smell of spiced wine and roasting meat drifting through the air, and stopping at a stone…
The Library of Alexandria: History, Knowledge, and the Legend of Its Destruction There are few places in history that have captured the human imagination quite like the Library of Alexandria. For centuries it has stood as a symbol of everything civilisation can achieve and everything it can lose. It was a place where the greatest…
The Baghdad Battery: Did Ancient People Discover Electricity? In 1938, an Austrian archaeologist named Wilhelm König was sorting through a collection of artifacts at the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad when he came across something deeply unusual. It was a small clay jar about 14 centimetres tall and it was sealed with asphalt and…
Göbekli Tepe – The 12,000-Year-Old Temple That Rewrote Human History Reading time: approx. 7–8 minutes Before the pyramids of Egypt. Before Stonehenge. Before the first cities of Mesopotamia. Before writing, before agriculture, before everything we were taught marks the beginning of human civilisation, someone was already building temples. Not crude shelters. Not simple stone arrangements….
The Antikythera Mechanism – Ancient Greece Built a Computer 2000 Years Ago. In 1901, a group of sponge divers sheltering from a storm off the Greek island of Antikythera made one of the most extraordinary discoveries in the history of archaeology. On the seafloor, at a depth of around 45 metres, lay the wreck of…
Did Noah’s Flood and Atlantis Describe the Same Event? What Historians, Geologists and Ancient Texts Reveal For thousands of years, two of the most famous stories in human history have fascinated people across the world. One comes from the Bible. The other comes from ancient Greece. One tells the story of a catastrophic flood that…