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Ceramic trumpet | The Past
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (532+ words) This kind of trumpet is rare in Germany. What is it? This ceramic trumpet, found in Bavaria, is more than 200 years old. Measuring 44cm long, the instrument comprises a coiled clay tube that was probably pressed using a ring-shaped template, while…...
Migration, mobility, and a Mesolithic refuge | The Past
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (412+ words) The Goths migrated over vast distances in the late Roman period, plundering the towns and farmsteads of the declining Empire. A study of human remains from two cemeteries in Bulgaria, all buried with distinctively "Gothic" jewellery, brooches, and belt buckles,…...
Archaeology as immersive historical simulation | The Past
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (961+ words) Archaeology as immersive historical simulation the-past. com Archaeology as immersive historical simulation One has to wonder whether it is worth travelling far and wide to visit a site when you can do so in your own living room. When I…...
The day Sussex died: The Battle of the Boar's Head, 30 June 1916 | The Past
1+ week, 2+ day ago (287+ words) Feint it may have been " yet in just under five hours, the Boar's Head cost the lives of more than 350 soldiers from the 11th, 12th, and 13th Battalions of the Royal Sussex, while more than 1, 000 were wounded or taken prisoner. This is their…...
Somme, 1916 | The Past
1+ week, 2+ day ago (281+ words) It is a question often asked: what was the worst day in Britain's military history? British losses on that date numbered a staggering 57, 470, including those "missing', with 19, 240 killed in action " making it the bloodiest single day in the Army's history....
A sideshow to a sideshow: The Great Arab Revolt, 1916-1918 | The Past
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (250+ words) In Lawrence's footsteps: the Great Arab Revolt Project" Launched in 2006, the Great Arab Revolt Project was a ten-year archaeological investigation under the auspices of Bristol University. Led by MHMcontributor Nicholas Saunders and MHM's former Editor, the late Neil Faulkner (1958-2022), it…...
The ultimate arms race: The Iron Curtain falls " Part 6: the Atomic Age | The Past
1+ week, 2+ day ago (224+ words) The balance of power had turned into a balance of terror. On the insistence of Emperor Hirohito, however, the Japanese military junta did surrender on 14 August. A few weeks later, General Douglas Mac Arthur presided over the surrender ceremony on…...
Little Bighorn: The five key myths " The Past
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1500+ words) Little Bighorn: The five key myths the-past. com Little Bighorn: The five key myths It is 150 years this June since the dust settled on the hills surrounding the site of the encampment which attracted the unwelcome attentions of the 7th US…...
Damien Lewis | The Past
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (257+ words) The more one studies Churchill in the early stages of the war, the more in awe one is." Any kind of foreign cultures, foreign places, and foreign history. In my early 20s, I visited a host of off-the-beaten-track places; I remember…...
A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence | The Past
1+ week, 3+ day ago (501+ words) Scotland and England had the same monarch, but little else. Unlike Dublin, Edinburgh had a parliament entirely separate from Westminster, including discrete legal codes, churches, and bureaucracies, which worked well enough until it came to trading partners. The author unravels…...