Romans | Tullie House Primary History - Romans History -- First Colony Foundation European exploration of the Outer Banks of modern-day North Carolina began in the early decades of the sixteenth century. The Florentine Giovanni da Verrazzano in the service of the French king, Francis I, skirted the Outer Banks in 1524 and the following year the Spaniard Pedro de Quejo passed by on a voyage to the Chesapeake Bay. Neither the French nor Spanish made any effort to settle the region, however, and other than a brief visit by the Spanish in 1566 Europeans showed no interest in the Outer Banks until the Roanoke voyages sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh nearly twenty years later. "Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, Oval" by Nicholas Hilliard. c. 1585. National Portrait Gallery, London.In 1584, Raleigh, an enormously wealthy courtier and favorite of Elizabeth I, sought the queen's permission to establish a colony in North America. Map of the E coast of N America from Chesapeake bay to Cape Lookout; with royal arms, English vessels, Indian canoes by John White. 1585-1593. Paul E.
Part of a wall painting from a Roman villa Roman Britain, 4th century AD Lullingstone, Kent Christians at prayer This wall painting was found at Lullingstone, Kent, in the Darenth valley, when the remains of a Roman villa were excavated in 1949. The villa had been built in the late first century AD, and altered and extended several times in the succeeding 300 years. The walls were decorated with elaborate paintings on Christian themes, which have been partially reconstructed. G. de la Bédoyère, Roman villas and the countrysi (London, Batsford/English heritage, 1993) G.W. C.
Forensic Science Has Revealed the Real Face of Jesus. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below From the first time Christian children settle into Sunday school classrooms, an image of Jesus Christ is etched into their minds. In North America he is most often depicted as being taller than his disciples, lean, with long, flowing, light brown hair, fair skin and light-colored eyes. Familiar though this image may be, it is inherently flawed. An answer has emerged from an exciting new field of science: forensic anthropology. 13th Century Byzantine mosaic, San Marco, Venice. The Body As Evidence An outgrowth of physical anthropology, forensic anthropology uses cultural and archeological data as well as the physical and biological sciences to study different groups of people, explains A. While forensic anthropology is usually used to solve crimes, Richard Neave, a medical artist retired from The University of Manchester in England, realized it also could shed light on the appearance of Jesus. 16th Century Renaissance painting by Titian.
Archaeologists Unearth More—a Lot More—of a Massive Underground City In 2013, construction crews in the city of Nevşehir, in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, were demolishing low-income housing ringing a Byzantine castle when they unearthed something astonishing: entrances to a massive underground city. Dating to at least Byzantine times, the vast network of tunnels and rooms had been carved into volcanic ash rock called tuff that gives Cappadocia—famed for its otherworldly “fairy houses,” cave churches, and evocative geologic formations—its singular terrain. It’s not the first underground city to be discovered in the region; there are some 250 known subterranean dwellings of various sizes hidden within the fantastical landscape. The two biggest are Kaymakli and Derinkuyu; the latter is estimated to have been able to house up to 20,000 people. Both cities have been known for decades. But this new underground town, hiding beneath a centuries-old castle on a hilltop right in Nevşehir, just might be the biggest. Why was it constructed?
King Tut's Blade Made of Meteorite King Tut was buried with a dagger made of an iron that literally came from space, says a new study into the composition of the iron blade from the sarcophagus of the boy king. Using non-invasive, portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, a team of Italian and Egyptian researchers confirmed that the iron of the dagger placed on the right thigh of King Tut's mummified body a has meteoric origin. The team, which include researchers from Milan Polytechnic, Pisa University and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, detailed their results in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science. RELATED: Weird Facts About King Tut and His Mummy The weapon, now on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, was described in 1925 by Howard Carter, who three years before had discovered the treasure-packed tomb, as "a highly ornamented gold dagger with crystal knob." Made of non-rusted, homogeneous metal, the finely manufactured blade features a decorated gold handle. RELATED: Tut's Funeral: Burying the Boy King
15 Intriguing Facts About the Antikythera Mechanism This week, researchers from the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project announced new insights about the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, an unusual artifact that has intrigued archaeologists, classicists, historians, and the public for decades. Here are 15 facts about the mechanism, sometimes called “the world’s first computer.” Jump right to #12, #13, and #14 for the latest interpretations of this singular object. Located in the Aegean Sea between mainland Greece and Crete, Antikythera is an island that literally means “opposite of Kythera,” another, much larger island. The ship is assumed to be Roman and, when it sank just off the coast of the island in the middle of the 1st century BCE, carried a huge number of artifacts dating back to as early as the 4th century BCE. In 1900, Greek sponge divers found the shipwreck, which was submerged nearly 150 feet, while wearing gear that was standard for the early 20th century—canvas suits and copper helmets.
Money in Shakespeare’s time Wed 2 May 2007 by abagond Money in Shakespeare’s time was counted in pounds, shillings and pence – or pennies: 12 pennies make a shilling20 shillings (or 240 pennies) make a pound English money remained that way till 1971, when it was decimalized. The pound came from the old Roman libra, the shilling from the solidus and the penny from the denarius. There was no paper money back then, just silver and gold coins. I will express all prices in pennies to make them easier to compare. The English coins that Shakespeare mentions (the value of each is given in pennies): angel (120)crown (60)shilling (12)sixpence (6)groat (4)twopence (2)penny (1)halfpenny (0.5)farthing (0.25) He mentions pounds but only as an amount of money, not as a coin. Crowns, the most commonly used coins, were made of either silver or gold. Foreign coins that Shakespeare mentions (with the value in pennies): ducat (120)guilder (120)dollar (50)crusado (27-48) He calls the French ecu a crown. See also: Like this: Like Loading...
3,000-year-old royal tomb discovered in Egypt Archaeologists cleaning the forecourt of a high official’s tomb in Egypt poked through a hole and discovered another tomb behind it — one that was built for a man more than three millennia ago. The team, led by Egyptology professor Jiro Kondo of Waseda University in Tokyo, was cleaning up the tomb of Userhat, a high official under Amenhotep III, the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, when they discovered the hole. Beyond it lay the transverse hall of a previously unknown tomb built for a royal scribe named Khonsu. A frieze pattern near the ceiling is typical of the Ramesside period, around 1200 B.C. The magnificently decorated T-shaped tomb runs 15 feet long from east to west and 18 feet from north to south. On another wall, Khonsu and his wife, with two ram-headed deities in the background, are shown worshipping the gods Osiris and Isis, who also are depicted in a seated position on another wall.
Rabbit hole leads to incredible 700-year-old Knights Templar cave complex A rabbit hole in the UK conceals the entrance to an incredible cave complex linked to the mysterious Knights Templar. New photos show the remarkable Caynton Caves network, which looks like something out of the movie “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” The shadowy Knights Templar order is said to have used the caves. The Sun reports that the caves are hidden beneath a farmer’s field in Shropshire. The site was visited by photographer Michael Scott after he saw a video of the caves online. “I traipsed over a field to find it, but if you didn’t know it was there you would just walk right past it,” Scott said. Once inside, Scott encountered arches, walkways, and carved niches. Said to be 700 years old, the caves have been long been linked to the Knights Templar – a Catholic military order that played a key role during the Crusades. With the loss of the Holy Land, the Templars’ military influence waned, although they still held great economic sway in medieval Europe.