2+ hour, 53+ min ago  (249+ words) In 1782, a Later Bronze Age bronze pin with, unusually, a bronze ring threaded on to its stem, was found in Knockglass townland near Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon. Very soon it came into the possession of the local Ouseley family, and William…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (211+ words) Based on ecological, stylistic, historical, and chemical criteria, a periodisation of rock art in the Tassili n'Ajjer can be proposed in the table below. The Past is a brand new website that brings together the most exciting stories and the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (555+ words) Disease may explain the rapid shift in the genetic makeup of European populations as a result of Yamnaya migration some 5,000 years ago. The plague recurred at intervals until the mid-8th century, and is estimated by some historians to have affected between…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (186+ words) The Past is a brand new website that brings together the most exciting stories and the very best writing from the worlds of history, archaeology, ancient art and heritage. The site is powered by our unique stable of accessible specialist…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (186+ words) The Past is a brand new website that brings together the most exciting stories and the very best writing from the worlds of history, archaeology, ancient art and heritage. The site is powered by our unique stable of accessible specialist…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago  (186+ words) The Past is a brand new website that brings together the most exciting stories and the very best writing from the worlds of history, archaeology, ancient art and heritage. The site is powered by our unique stable of accessible specialist…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago  (259+ words) Archaeological investigations by an international team of researchers have unearthed the earliest evidence for intentional human cremation in Africa. Analysis of the burned material reveals that the fire, which reached temperatures of more than 500C, was refuelled and tended to during…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago  (247+ words) Analysis of quartz arrowheads from South Africa reveals that they may represent the earliest use of poison arrows in hunting. The same compounds were also found on four 250-year-old bone arrowheads collected in the region by 18th-century travellers, which were…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (373+ words) Eye-witness accounts added powerful human dimensions to the evidence. Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, a French resistance fighter and Auschwitz survivor, vividly described conditions at the camp and the horrors of the gas chambers. By combining documentary evidence with personal accounts, these testimonies…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (328+ words) This issue, we are giving away three copies of The White Lady, Helen Fry's examination of British secret-service networks behind Germanlines. Intelligence gathering was essential to both sides in the World Wars. At the heart of MI6's efforts were two…...