Ruins of the original Sudeley Castle building (photo:authors archives) When, after crossing the beautiful village of Winchombe and walking five hundred meters along a beautiful path in the English countryside, you arrive at Sudeley Castle, you cannot imagine the unfortunate fate that the successive
Can modern technology help decipher Linear A, the Minoan script that still holds its secrets well? Dr. Ester Salgarella, a researcher at St Johns College, Cambridge, not only believes so, but also attempts it with the open access database SigLA (https://sigla.phis.me/), which she built in collaborat
In 480 BC, before the advance of the Persian king Xerxes towards Greece, the Athenian general Themistocles He proposed that the Greek alliance block the passage of the Persian army in the narrow gorge of Thermopylae and, at the same time, immobilize the enemy fleet in the Strait of Artemis. In this
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets Edward III is probably one of the best kings England has ever had in her history. He won the right to govern when he was barely seventeen years old, he was the initiator of the Hundred Years War, he won the crucial battles of Crécy and Poitiers, he managed