The Bronze Age was a time of immense upheaval for Indo Europeans. As these people came together and took giant steps towards society and civilization there was much to be learned, and many problems to be resolved. The discovery of metallurgy, which supercharged the Stone Age agricultural revolution, changed the world forever. Gone were the
For those who search for the strange and unusual from history there are certain things which prove interesting time and again. Unexplained phenomena, disappearances and unsolved murders, these always appeal, and it is easy to understand why. A mystery solved is, after all, no mystery at all, and those that remain so allow for endless
In early 1956 Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party, and the Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin arrived on a diplomatic mission to Britain aboard the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze. For the duration of the mission the cruiser was docked in Her Majesty’s Navala Base, Portsmouth. The mission came at a delicate time. Stalin had been
Ask the average person about pre-Columbian South America and you would almost certainly hear about the Inca. This mountain kingdom which carved itself a loose empire that runs the length of the Andes looms large in the modern consciousness. But this can be deceptive. The Inca were hugely successful, but they were a comparatively recent
It is fair to say that the history of medicine has been something of a hit and miss affair. Without modern technology to aid in our understanding of the root causes of ailments, there was a lot of guesswork and outright quackery in the mix for much of the time. This is not to say
Almost everyone has heard of Leonardo da Vinci, who is rightly held up as one of the greatest minds in history. Supremely skilled as a painter, inventor, scientist and polymath, his fizzing genius casts a shadow over history few can hope to rival. Most will also know of Daedalus, the ancient Greek analogue of da