Europe’s neolithic culture is not very well documented on the World Wide Web. The vast majority of neolithic Websites seem to promote tours or just gloss over oft-published facts and ideas (many of which have since been discarded). You only ….
How ancient is the art of cheese-making? No one really knows because (apparently) the implements used to make ancient cheeses have not survived. Archaeologists suggest that maybe cheese-making began around 5000-5,500 years ago. Perhaps it was a little earlier. Cheese ….
What if they gave a birthday party for one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world and didn’t tell anyone about it. Everyone on Earth probably knows that Hanoi, Vietnam is celebrating its 1,000th year of history this ….
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to live in the stone age? Fred and Wilma Flintstone had it easy compared to modern stone age peoples who survive in remote corners of the globe. Scientists speak of “Uncontacted ….
A very interesting news article was published last year, but hardly anyone in the American anti-war community noticed it. It seems that American oil companies had little interest in bidding on Iraqi oil contracts in 2009. The significance of this ….
There are many theories about how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, of which more than 100 have been discovered to date. It seems odd to think of “discovering” pyramids, but apparently fewer than 70 were included in the first ….
Do you think Hitler was a Jew? That notion has been shared in idle conversations, books, and TV documentaries countless times through the past several decades. The veracity of the idea is unimportant to the conversation because the mere supposition ….
In looking for some new topics to post to our Medieval European Studies forum today, Michael Martinez posted a couple of stories that deal with topics that are relevant and important to us today. “Medieval peasant diet would be pretty ….