Bronze mirror inscribed with Turkish tamgas. This mirror, found in 1972, was cleaned in 1974 and the text written in Turkish alphabet was revealed and recorded among the Hermitage Museum

Known as Ushtogaysky Square, it is the first and largest discovered in Kazakhstan. (Image: Digitalglobe, via NASA) Two weeks ago, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA published satellite images

A 3,500-year-old pottery piece found in Egypt 20 years ago turned out to be an ‘alphabet book’. The tablet piece, found 20 years ago near Luxor in Egypt, came from

In one of the most comprehensive genetic studies to date, it was revealed that dogs’ ancestry dates back to Central Asia. Dr. from Cornell University, USA. According to research conducted by

Ask most people when modern England really began and you’ll get a shrug. Push a historian into a corner, though, and a surprising number will point to a single grey

In June 1381 something happened that medieval England was simply not supposed to allow. Tens of thousands of ordinary people — farmers, labourers, tradesmen, the sort of folk who appear

On the 14th of July 1789, a Paris mob stormed an old royal fortress called the Bastille, and the world has never been quite the same since. We tend to

There is an old habit among historians of pointing to a single battle and declaring that the entire future of a continent hung upon it. Usually the claim deserves a

Seyyid Ali Baba, the Qadiri sheikh living in Lahore, was invited to Prizren in his dream in 1783 by Gözcü Mahmud Efendi, who was martyred during the conquest of the

In 1972, a mechanical digger operator preparing an industrial site outside the Bulgarian city of Varna struck something that turned out to be the oldest known worked gold in the