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 – Six to seven thousand years ago Stone Age people in Norway created a number of rock drawings that depict animals, but the rock carvings were not indented

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 – By examining ancient DNA   of 92 pre-Columbian mummies and skeletons, between 500 and 8600 years old, scientists have now confirmed the devastating impact of European

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 – When and where the boomerang was invented is not entirely clear, but archaeological discoveries reveal the object has very ancient history. It was used about 20,000 years

MessageToEagle.com – A gold pendant depicting the Norse God Odin and his horse Sleipnir has been discovered on a farm in Kungsbacka, Sweden. Archaeologists think the precious jewelry can

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 – Each spring, Viking leaders and famous warriors gathered outside the Swedish city of Uppsala to plan raids on distant lands. The sudden and dramatic breakout by

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 – In 632 B.C. Cylon, a nobleman and former Olympic champion made an attempt to rule Athens. As a winner of the Olympic Games, Cylon of Athens was

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 – A well-preserved 1,500-year-old mummy has been discovered at an altitude of 2,803 meters in the Altai Mountains. Scientists are unwrapping the body and once this is complete the

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 number of ancient spiral-shaped holes, called puquios, that dot the dry landscape in Nazca, Peru have puzzled archaeologists for years. Now, scientists say the longstanding

MessageToEagle.com – Råbjerg Mile in Denmark is Europe’s largest desert. This is also the place where can find the largest moving sand dune in Northern Europe. The sand dune

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