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Showing posts with label Sicily. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sicily. Show all posts
Friday, September 15, 2017

6,000-Year-Old Cave Find Shows Sicilians Made Wine Way Before Previously Thought

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Ancient Origins Researchers have found traces of wine in Sicily dating back to the 4th millennium BC. According to experts, that could ...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Just How Rich Were the Inhabitants of Magna Graecia Really?

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Ancient Origins A team of archaeologists excavating in the Italian city of Paestum (Poseidonia), has uncovered the remnants of a palati...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

More Orichalcum, the Atlantis Alloy, Turns Up with Helmets at a Sicilian Shipwreck, What Was its Use?

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Ancient Origins Researchers have recovered yet more ingots, possibly of the fabled metal orichalcum, from a ship that sank off the coas...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Italian Archaeologists Find a Rare Solar Observatory Hewn Into Rock to Highlight the Winter Solstice

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Ancient Origins A group of friends surveying World War II bunkers in Sicily, Italy, uncovered something much older—a rock on a hill w...
Friday, March 11, 2016

History Trivia - Mount Etna (Sicily) erupts

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March 11 1669 Mount Etna (Sicily) erupted. 990,000,000 cubic yards of lava were thrown out over four months, destroying a dozen villages...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Archaeologists in Sicily excavate an ancient Greek city remarkably preserved beneath earth and sand

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Ancient Origins In 409 BC, Carthaginian troops from North Africa slaughtered and enslaved the 16,000 soldiers and residents of Selinunte...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

History Trivia - first official lottery held in England

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January 11 802 St. Paulinus of Aquileia died. He was royal master of grammar to Charlemagne at the Palace School and was appointed Patri...