MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s Dawn spacecraft presents spectacular images of bright craters on the dwarf planet Ceres. The pictures were taken 386km (240 miles) from the surface of Ceres, during the
MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have now opened the 2,000-year-old coffin believed to belong to Liu He, the Marquis of Haihun, in a laboratory. The remains of the “Marquis of Haihun”
MessageToEagle.com – The mystery of how a lung from ancient French royalty became mummified has been solved after decades of uncertainty, according to an international team of researchers. In
MessageToEagle.com – On April 20, 1535, an atmospheric optical phenomenon known as the “Sun Dog” was observed over Stockholm. The painting that depicts the event was named “Weather sun”) (in Swedish: Vädersol)
MessageToEagle.com – A new study shows that Yiddish is thought to have been invented by Iranian and Ashkenazic Jews as they traded on the Silk Road and these findings provide
MessageToEagle.com – Anglo-Saxon burial site with about 150 graves of men, women and children along with jewelry, spears, knives and bone combs have been discovered at an army site,
MessageToEagle.com – On April 19, 1770, Captain James Cook spotted and claimed the East Coast of Australia Cook was born in north-east England in 1728, and in his late
MessageToEagle.com – The Pax Romana (‘Roman Peace’) was a period of relative peace and stability across the Roman Empire which lasted for over 200 years, beginning with the reign
MessageToEagle.com – On the evening of April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren instructed Paul Revere, a Boston silversmith, to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn Sam Adams and John
MessageToEagle.com – A Viking-age (9th/ 10th century) woman grave was discovered at Ketilsstaðir, eastern Iceland, in 1938. Her skeleton was very poorly preserved and incomplete. The woman from Ketilsstaðir
MessageToEagle.com – A new image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope presents the Spider Nebula, officially named IC 417, that lies near a much smaller object called NGC 1931 not
MessageToEagle.com – On April 17, 1397, Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400) was recorded to have given the first presentation of his Canterbury Tales at the royal English court of Richard II.
MessageToEagle.com – On April 16, 1457 BC (other source propose May 9), the Battle of Megiddo took place during a rebellion against Pharaoh Thutmose III. On one side, there
MessageToEagle.com – The Ring of Fire refers to a very geologically active section of the world, the Pacific Rim. In fact, it’s not really a full circle, but rather
MessageToEagle.com – The Battle of Rain (also called the Battle of the River Lech or Battle of Lech) was fought on April 15, 1632, during Thirty Years’ War. The forces involved in this encounter
MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists have been working to solve the mystery of five-ton lion sculptures recently found in a field in Sorgun, a town located in the Central Anatolia, Turkey.
MessageToEagle.com – The gold helmet of King Meskalamdug (Mes-Kalam-Dug ) was found by Sir Leonard Woolley (1880 – 1960), a British archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur
MessageToEagle.com – It turns out that a 1917 image on an astronomical glass plate from our Carnegie Observatories’ collection shows the first-ever evidence of a planetary system beyond our
MessageToEagle.com – A team of researchers led by archaeologists at the University of York used flint blades, hammerstones and fire to recreate replicas of ritual headdresses made by hunter-gatherers
MessageToEagle.com – Christiaan Huygens was born in Hague on April 14, 1629. He was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist, best known for his contributions to mathematics and physics.
MessageToEagle.com – A mysterious skull discovered in a meadow in Vienna that had been hand-painted with flowers is real and belonged to an elderly man, according to an archaeologist.
MessageToEagle.com – On April 13, 1598, Henry IV of France signed the Edict of Nantes. It confirmed Roman Catholicism as the state religion and at the same time, it
MessageToEagle.com – Mission operations engineers have successfully recovered the Kepler spacecraft from Emergency Mode (EM). On Sunday morning, the spacecraft reached a stable state with the communication antenna pointed
MessageToEagle.com – While studying biodiversity at the Hannibal Bank Seamount off the coast of Panama, a research team has captured unique video of thousands of red crabs swarming in
MessageToEagle.com – On April 12, 238 AD, Gordian II loses the Battle of Carthage against the forces of Numidia, an Ancient Berber kingdom in what is now Algeria and a
