Month: October 2024
The Dreros Stones, and an Ancient Language Lost to the Nazis
Unpicking our ancient past is a nigh-impossible challenge. Piecing together who we are and where we came from has been likened to sifting sand through a screen, trying to find the odd…
The Tasmanian Tiger: The Long Journey to Resurrect an Icon
The Tasmanian Tiger is one of the most famous extinct animals. Also known as the thylacine, it survived well into the modern era and we even have film footage of a living…
The Wreck of HMS Trooper: Lost WW2 Sub Rediscovered
HMS Trooper was born into the heart of conflict. Laid down in 1940 and launched in 1942, she was thrown into the heart of the Second World War and the Battle for…
Samhain, the Celtic Festival which Gave Us Halloween
‘Tis the season to be spooky! Grab your pumpkin and your best witch’s hat, break out the skeletons for your front lawn and hope nobody puts anything dodgy in your candy. Halloween…
The Mycenaean Collapse: A Massacre in the Palaces?
Bronze Age Greece is seen as a golden age. This is Homer’s Greece, the Greece of the Iliad and the Trojan War, of city states and island kingdoms, of great heroes and…
Intact Tomb Found in Petra is Straight Out of Indiana Jones
The third Indiana Jones movie is arguably the best, and its climactic set piece features a wonder of the world. Known as the Khaznah el-Far’oun, or “treasury of the pharaoh” this rose…