WEIRD HISTORY
An illustration of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Credit: Monlster – By Ḏḥwty When, lo! as they reached the mountain-side, A wondrous portal opened wide, As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed; And the Piper advanced and the children followed, And when all …
Discussions of contacts between the Americas and Polynesia have often focused on Easter Island. Image copyright Reuters – BBC Staff, 2020 Jul 08 – New evidence has been found for epic prehistoric voyages between the Americas and eastern Polynesia. DNA analysis suggests there …
Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer receiving Charles X’s decree recognizing Haitian independence on July 11, 1825. Bibliotheque Nationale de France – by Marlene Daut, The Conversation, 2020 Jun 30 (Marlene Daut is Professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of Virginia.) – In the wake of …
The Biblical ruler’s story has been told for millennia. Archeologists are still fighting over whether it’s true. The evidence of David’s life is sparse. Was he an emperor? A local king? Or, as Israel Finkelstein claims, a Bedouin sheikh? Illustration by Matteo Berton – …
An ancient stone map dating back to 200 BC to 200 AD has been discovered in Colima, México. Source: INAH – By Ashley Cowie, 2020 Jun 16 – Archaeologists from El Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) have confirmed the discovery of …
The Parthenon Blew Up While Being Used For Gunpowder Storage By The Ottoman Military. By Gordon Cameron, 2020 Jun 18 – When we look at old ruins, we may be tempted to think that time steadily wears down structures in an implacable, vague …
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a huge ancient structure near Stonehenge. Albo73/Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2020 Jun 24 – Looming large over the British countryside, Stonehenge cuts an imposing figure – but it’s just a fraction of the structures that once stood …
Some of the ruins from the Tulsa Race Massacre in June 1921, when white vigilantes set the Oklahoma city’s African-American district ablaze. Credit…Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. By Alby Thompson Updated 2020 Jun 23 Some historical events you wish you’d learned about in school. History …
Thousands of years before Blackbeard, these buccaneers raided ships, stole booty—and even kidnapped a young Julius Caesar. Merchant ships, such as that on the left of this sixth-century B.C. Greek bowl, were targets of pirates in antiquity. Naval warships, such as the one …
By Melissa Sartore – Despite what Hollywood portrays on the big screen, not all cowboys were white. As a matter of fact, about one quarter of cowboys in the American West were African American. As the United States emerged from the Civil …
