Новости по теме history

Cavemen's rock music makes a comeback Thousands of years after they resonated in caves, two dozen stone chimes used by our prehistoric forefathers will make music once more in a unique series of concerts in Paris.

17 March 2014

Mystery of fossilized jaw solved in Semey Semey historians have finely identified the mysterious fossilized jaw that was almost forgotten in a school museum as an unknown object.

13 March 2014

British Museum shows Vikings' softer side The Vikings are renowned as bloodthirsty warriors, but a new exhibition at the British Museum aims to show the cultural achievements and trading skills that spread their influence far and wide.

06 March 2014

Artefacts of 18 century war discovered in South Kazakhstan Shepherds have found a ring-mail armor dating back to the 18th century in a desert in southern Kazakhstan.

16 February 2014

Vatican trove shows Catholic persecution in samurai-era Japan A trove of ancient documents unearthed at the Vatican could shed light on the brutal crackdown on Christianity in isolationist Japan under its samurai rulers.

31 January 2014

New discoveries about Kazakhs made in Britain The unique findings, that show the life of Kazakh people during the 14th century have been discovered in Great Britain.

17 January 2014

Important library in north Lebanon torched A decades-old library owned by a Greek Orthodox priest in north Lebanon's majority Sunni city of Tripoli was torched late Friday, a day after a sectarian scuffle, a security source said.

05 January 2014

Disney explores own history in magical filmmaking tale Disney delves into its own history in "Saving Mr. Banks," a movie about the difficult birth of the classic film "Mary Poppins," wrenched from a tale by a reluctant British author.

20 December 2013

Tomb of Kenesary Khan's warriors discovered in Astana An ancient tomb of Kenesary Khan's warriors has been discovered in Astana.

03 December 2013

US marks 150th anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln's undying call for a "new birth of freedom" at the bloody turning point of the US Civil War, turned 150 years old Tuesday, even as the union he fought to preserve quarrels bitterly over the role of government.

20 November 2013

ISS crew returns safely to Earth with Olympic torch Three astronauts returned to Earth Monday, after 66 days aboard the International Space Station, bringing back the Olympic torch back to the planet after a historic space walk.

11 November 2013

Churchill's London bunker welcomes wannabe WWII spies Deep in the bowels of London's Churchill War Rooms, shadowy figures are learning how to defuse bombs, crack codes and rooting out hidden microphones.

28 October 2013

Two mummies found in ancient Peru cemetery Two pre-Columbian mummies more than a thousand years old were found in a pre-Incan cemetery in a suburb of Lima.

25 October 2013

The man behind the emperor: Augustus show opens in Rome A political genius, a great reformer, a patron of the arts -- but ancient Rome's first emperor Augustus was also a family man, as highlighted in a new exhibition that opened in Rome this week.

20 October 2013

Mosque and school spark new feud between Turkey and Greece Greece and Turkey, which share a history marred by bitter territorial disputes and Christian-Muslim feuds, are at loggerheads once again over religion.

11 October 2013

China: Japan defeated not only by atomic bombs Japan should realize it was defeated in 1945 "not just" by atomic bombs and thus not challenge the post-World War II order.

09 October 2013

Chile group wants Pinochet 'dictatorship' in textbooks A Chilean education advisory group recommended Friday that schools use "dictatorship" rather than "military regime" in textbooks to describe General Augusto Pinochet's rule marred by rights abuses.

07 October 2013

New work sets timeline for the first pharaohs Archaeologists drawing on a wide range of tools said on Wednesday they had pinpointed the crucial time in world history when Egypt emerged as a distinct state.

05 September 2013

French, German leaders in historic visit to WWII massacre site French President Francois Hollande and German counterpart Joachim Gauck pay a landmark visit to the ghost village of Oradour-sur-Glane where 642 people were massacred by Nazi troops during World War II.

04 September 2013

Obama hails King but says 'dream' requires vigilance President Barack Obama challenged Americans to enshrine Martin Luther King Jr's victory over racial oppression with a new "dream" of economic equality.

29 August 2013

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