- April 1, 2025
HISTORY

Wool Aliens of the British Empire
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . April 1, 2025
In the early 1910s a young woman set out every day to walk the river banks near Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. Ida Hayward was

65,000-year-old Neanderthal Glue Factory Discovered in Gibraltar
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . March 29, 2025
A recent discovery in Gibraltar has unveiled one of the most advanced manufacturing sites of the ancient world: a Neanderthal tar distillation oven dating back

James VI and I: Spinning the English Succession
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . March 26, 2025
In December 1593 Robert Persons, a leader of the English Jesuits on the Continent, was putting the finishing touches to a book he had been

Church Built by Roman Emperor Justinian I Excavated in Aquileia, Italy
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . March 23, 2025
In the quiet and peaceful village of Aquileia, in northern Italy near the Adriatic Sea coast, archaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian

Dedicated Roman Gladiator Superfans Were the Football Hooligans of Their Day
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . March 20, 2025
John Pearce/The Conversation In the amphitheatre of Gladiator II, Ridley Scott trains his lens on fighters and emperors – but no account of ancient gladiators

The Gruesome Goat’s Tongue: Greatest Torture of All Time?
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . March 17, 2025
History is full of inventive, albeit disturbing, methods of making people squirm, confess, or simply regret their life choices. Among these is the lesser-known but

Oldest Statement of Christian Faith (Jesus is God) Found In Israeli Prison
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . March 14, 2025
“Jesus is God.” An inscription declaring this to be a reality, the earliest and oldest written expression of the Christian faith, has been deemed ‘the

Earliest Fishing Operation Found in Central America, Dating to 2,000 BC
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . March 11, 2025
Even before the rise of the great Maya civilization, the people who occupied Central America’s Yucatan Peninsula were applying their engineering skills to make the

Murder in the Family: The Ptolemies
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . March 8, 2025
For 275 years, the Ptolemies ruled as Egypt’s last, enduring dynasty. Each king carried the name Ptolemy, and each queen carried the name Cleopatra, Berenice,

The Ancient Hangover Cure Found in a 1,000-Year-Old Cookbook
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . March 5, 2025
Written nearly a thousand years ago, the Kitab al-tabikh (book of cookery) written by Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq, is the most comprehensive work of its kind.