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Crusaders left genetic mark on the Middle East
Submitted by Dragomir on Thu, 2008/05/01 - 13:52. 801 CE to 900 CE | 1101 CE to 1200 CE | BBC News | Christianity | European | Islam | Middle EasternScientists from the Genographic Project, which is tracking human migrations through DNA, have found traces of a particular DNA signature in Lebanon which they link to European crusaders.
Royal Mint introduces heraldic coin designs
Submitted by katerinfg on Mon, 2008/04/28 - 14:44. BBC News | English | Heraldry | Modern SocietyA new series of British coins will feature the heraldry of the monarch. Each coin in the six-coin set will feature an aspect of the coat of arms with the £1 piece depicting the complete shield.
New dig may explain Stonehenge
Submitted by Ursula on Thu, 2008/04/24 - 03:44. 601 CE and Earlier | Archaeology | BBC News | Celtic | English | Places of Worship | StoneworkJust a few weeks after beginning, the excavators now working at Stonehenge have had what they describe as a "breakthrough." Clues towards the original placement of the bluestones, the site's oldest elements, may reveal why Stonehenge was built.
14th Century Game gets Official Recognition
Submitted by meli1380 on Sat, 2008/04/12 - 11:57. 1301 CE to 1400 CE | BBC News | English | Games and GamblingThe Sports Council in England has agreed that Stoolball, a medieval game mostly localized to southeastern England, meets its criteria to be recognized as a sport. Approximately 4,000 people in the vicinity of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire play Stoolball.
Plans to exhume Galileo cause controversy
Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2008/03/23 - 13:02. 1401 CE to 1500 CE | BBC News | General Science | ItalianPlans to exhume the body of Renaissance scientist Galileo Galilei in order to test his DNA and establish the cause of his blindness have caused problems with the Catholic Church. The Rector of the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Florence, where Galileo is buried, is opposed to the exhumation.
UK£5m donation will bring Bodleian treasures to the masses
Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2008/03/20 - 21:47. BBC News | English | Exhibits | Scribal ArtsThe donation of UK£5 million from Oxford publisher Julian Blackwell will make possible the display of many of the Bodleian Library's treasures which are now available only to scholars. The gift will be used to create a new exhibition hall at one of the library's sites in Oxford.
Medieval belt buckle discovered in Scotland
Submitted by Sabine Berard on Mon, 2008/03/17 - 21:17. 1101 CE to 1200 CE | Archaeology | BBC News | Metalworking | ScottishA sewer line breakage in Perth, Scotland, has led to discovery of a copper alloy belt buckle that probably dates back to the 12th century.
Donald Trump in dutch with Scottish heralds
Submitted by Milica on Mon, 2008/03/10 - 11:44. BBC News | Heraldry | Modern Society | ScottishAmerican millionaire businessman Donald Trump is being investigated for his plan to use the Trump heraldry to promote his golf resort in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Archaeologists closer to discovering Scottish palace
Submitted by Milica on Mon, 2008/03/03 - 21:39. 801 CE to 900 CE | Architecture and Construction | BBC News | ScottishMedieval texts have called the palace of Kenneth MacAlpine, the first king of a united Scotland, a stone building, but modern researchers believe it would have been wooden. Now recent discoveries lead the experts to think they may be close to zeroing in on the location.
Metal detectors dispute discovery of 14th century seal
Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2008/02/22 - 22:42. 1301 CE to 1400 CE | BBC News | English | MetalworkingTwo metal detector enthusiasts are laying claim to discovery of a 13th or 14th century seal depicting the murder of Thomas Becket. The seal was found in a North Yorkshire field.
Mary Rose gets high-tech scan
Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2008/02/21 - 14:32. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | BBC News | English | General Science | NauticalScientists at England's Diamond synchrotron are using intense light beams to help understand sulphur compounds in the timbers of the British warship Mary Rose.
Multidisciplinary Medieval Studies Center opens
Submitted by margaretc on Mon, 2008/02/18 - 23:12. BBC News | European | Middle Eastern | Modern SocietyThe University of St Andrews in Scotland is opening a new interdisciplinary center for Medieval Studies that is one of the largest such centers.
Medieval documents help locate Roman fort
Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2008/02/15 - 22:43. 601 CE and Earlier | Archaeology | BBC News | English | Mining | RomanArchaeologists working on the excavation of a Roman fort near Calstock in Cornwall credit references to silver smelting in medieval documents for helping to locate the site.
The sound of medieval English
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2008/01/29 - 22:26. BBC News | English | LinguisticsThe BBC's British History website includes the Ages of English Timeline which allows visitors to hear English the way it would have been spoken throughout the various historical periods.
Medieval melee: "a brutal free-for-all with few rules"
Submitted by Ealdred of Cold... on Mon, 2008/01/28 - 20:07. Armoured Combat | BBC News | EuropeanLiterature and the media have glamorized medieval battle, but the reality was much different. In truth, the melee was a "brutal free-for-all with few rules designed very much as a preparation for war."
Six medieval bishops identified in Scotland
Submitted by Milica on Sat, 2007/12/29 - 17:41. 1201 CE to 1300 CE | 1301 CE to 1400 CE | Archaeology | BBC News | Christianity | ScottishRadiocarbon dating was used recently to help identify the remains of six bishops found buried in at Whithorn Priory in Galloway, Scotland. The skulls dated from between 1200-1360 CE. (photos)
Want to get fit? Try the Authenticity Diet!
Submitted by Ursula on Thu, 2007/12/27 - 13:26. BBC News | Cooking | European | MedicineNeed to take off a few pounds or kilograms from the holiday feasting? Eat like your persona! A Shropshire physician claims that Europeans in the Middle Ages were in some ways much healthier than modern people.
Michelangelo's last sketch found in the Vatican
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2007/12/25 - 14:24. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | BBC News | Fine Arts | ItalianA red chalk sketch of the dome of St Peter's Basilica, believed to be the last work of the Renaissance artist Michelangelo, has been discovered in the Vatican archives. The sketch dates to 1564.
Guinness is good for you!
Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2007/12/21 - 16:37. BBC News | Brewing and Vinting | Medicine | Modern SocietyNew research states that a pint of Guinness a day "may work as well as an aspirin to prevent heart clots that raise the risk of heart attacks," according to an article in the BBC.
London Olympic construction uncovers Roman artifacts
Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2007/12/20 - 20:48. 601 CE and Earlier | BBC News | English | RomanThe London Olympics may leave a lasting mark on the city's history. Recently, workers at the site of the new London stadium unearthed artifacts including a Roman coin dating to the 4th century.
Tabula Peutingeriana, last surviving roadmap of Roman roads
Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2007/12/06 - 22:24. BBC News | Cartography | Roman | Scribal ArtsOriented east to west instead of north to south, the Tabula Peutingeriana, a seven-meter-long parchment scroll, records the network of roads of the late Roman Empire. From Spain to India, the map elongates the continents and reduces the Mediterranean Sea to a squiggle, but is the earliest known map of Roman roads.
Archaeologists investigate medieval disaster
Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2007/11/25 - 12:32. 1301 CE to 1400 CE | BBC News | English | Places of WorshipBritish archaeologists are digging through centuries of rubble to search for clues to a medieval disaster: the burning of Mansfield Woodhouse and its church in 1304.
Roman theatre lives in the Colosseum
Submitted by Milica on Mon, 2007/11/19 - 19:23. 601 CE and Earlier | BBC News | Exhibits | Performing Arts | RomanThe Colosseum in Rome will be the site of a special exhibition of Roman theatre, hosting "statues, mosaics, painted vases and fragments of wall paintings depicting actors and their masks, dancing girls, musicians, acrobats and jugglers" in a display that will continue until February 17, 2008.
The legacy of the Mary Rose
Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2007/11/18 - 20:45. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | BBC News | English | NauticalIn the 25 years since the Mary Rose was raised, what have historians learned about the life and times of Tudor England? Finlo Rohrer of the BBC News Magazine has the story.
Black pudding ice cream
Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2007/11/04 - 23:27. BBC News | Cooking | Modern SocietyHere's a dish for the truly adventurous: Black Pudding Ice Cream! Dowson's Dairies Ltd of Clayton-le-Dale, Blackburn, England will showcase the new flavor, complete with chunks of black pudding, at the annual Black Pudding Festival in Bacup.
German church moved to access coal mine
Submitted by Milica on Sat, 2007/11/03 - 16:37. 1301 CE to 1400 CE | BBC News | German | Places of WorshipA 750-year-old church in Heuersdorf, Germany was recently moved to make way for a coal mine. The move happened when the village's 59 residents lost their battle to keep their church.
Time Team reenactor dies in joust
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2007/10/30 - 18:55. BBC News | Equestrian Combat | Media | Modern SocietyA re-enactor, filming a segment of the BBC's Time Team series, was killed recently when a splinter from a lance flew through the eye slit of his helmet and entered his eye.
Trotting in the footsteps of Genghis Khan
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2007/10/16 - 17:10. BBC News | MongolianAustralian Tim Cope recently completed the journey of a lifetime: to follow in the footsteps of Mongolian leader Genghis Khan. Cope's three-year trek took him from Mongolia to Hungary, a 10,000 km trip.
Middle Ages: golden era of "girl power"
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2007/09/25 - 00:48. 1401 CE to 1500 CE | Archaeology | BBC NewsA new study by Sue Niebrzydowski of Bangor University's Institute of Early and Modern Studies says that women of 600 years ago had unprecedented power and independence.
Lack of skills threatens Britain's historic buildings
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2007/09/11 - 22:58. Architecture and Construction | BBC News | EnglishGreat Britain's citizens are generous with cash to protect their historic buildings, but a lack of knowledge of conservation techniques may endanger those same buildings.
