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The Tsunami of 365 // Ammianus Marcellinus // Roman Primary Source
An ancient disaster.
Uploaded 04-06-19
Here we have Marcellus Ammianus' account of the tsunami that followed the great earthquake of 365 in Crete. Stil…
2 days, 17 hours ago
Roman Citizen Describes Ancient Ireland and Thule // Edge of Known World // 7 BC Strabo Geographica
Here we have the Greek and likely Roman Citizen Strabo describing the edge of the world as Rome knew it in the first century, the windswept island of…
2 days, 17 hours ago
Aztec Historian Describes First Japanese in Mexico (1610) // Chimalpahin's Annals // Primary Source
Here we have the testimony of Nahua annalist Chimalpahin from 1610, 1611 and 1614, as he describes a couple of visits from a far away foreign land - …
2 days, 18 hours ago
Aztec Perspective on First Contact with Europeans // 16th cent. Florentine Codex // Primary Source
Mountains on the sea that signalled the coming apocalypse. This was the news that terrified the Aztecs and most of all their leader Moctezuma II. Her…
2 days, 18 hours ago
Ancient China and Rome: 1000 Years of Engagement // DOCUMENTARY
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2 days, 19 hours ago
First-Hand Account of the Destruction of Pompeii // Pliny The Younger, Primary Source
Here we have Pliny the Younger's account of the heroic death of his famous uncle Pliny the Elder in the chaos of a volcanic eruption, the same that f…
2 days, 19 hours ago
The Tragic Journal of Europe's Final Court Dwarf
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2 days, 20 hours ago
Last Samurai Describes Concluding Days of Old Japan
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4 Weirdest Gospels Left Out Of The Bible (From Jesus' Childhood to The Apocalypse)
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2 days, 21 hours ago
Joan of Arc's Sentence // May 1431 // Primary Source
On the 30th May 1431 the French national heroine Saint Joan of Arc, canonised in 1920, was burnt alive at the stake for heresy under the instruction …
2 days, 21 hours ago