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 red edifice carved into the rockface dates back to the 1st century AD. It has been known for some time that something lies
The office of Pope has historically always been a highly important one. Such a role was and is intensely political, with the Pope uniquely being able to influence foreign powers through their people and their faith. This power does not always attract the pious, and the history of the Vatican and the broader Catholic Church
Christopher Columbus is a divisive figure. In some households he is a hero, whereas others consider him much more controversial a figure. Even his final resting place has been the subject of fierce debate. The body of Columbus rests in Seville Cathedral in Spain, but also in the Dominican Republic. The problems arose because the
On 29 May 1953 Mount Everest was officially summited for the first time. The climbers, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, entered the history books for their achievement, something nobody had managed before. At least, that is what is believed. However there was another ascent, decades earlier, which may have achieved the impossible and reached the
The high Bronze Age saw the first emergence of complex cultures. Successive innovations in agriculture had produced a food surplus, perhaps the first meaningful one in history, and these foodstuffs could support the first cities. These complex urban centers appeared in four different places, developing alongside each other essentially at the same time along what
Archaeologists in the village of Stobreč in Croatia have unearthed an ancient Greek settlement. What makes this find especially exciting is that the oldest finds date back some 3,500 years, placing them firmly in the era of the Greek Bronze Age, the era of the Trojan War. This golden age for Greece saw a series