Showing posts with label questions about history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label questions about history. Show all posts

Did the ancients have mechanical watches?

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Antikythera is a Greek island about 40 km from Crete. In 1900, divers discovered the remains of an old ship near Antikythera. In the sh...

What people used the first lamps?

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 The first lamps we know of were used by primitive man, perhaps before 50,000 BC. These lamps consisted of a stone in the form of a con...

What people used plants to write?

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The ancient Egyptians used an aquatic plant that grew on the Nile as the first known paper. This plant, called papyrus, had stems from 1 ...

What was the strangest car trip in history?

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For those who think that the cars of yesterday were not as reliable as the ones produced today, please read this: In 1930, two men lef...

What was the biggest bicycle in history?

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During the 1890s, a group of artists traveled through Europe and America with a giant bicycle they proclaimed was the largest ever built....

What was a ziggurat?

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The pyramids of Egypt had smooth, inclined sides, but not all pyramids built in antiquity were like them. Some had sides that resembled a...

When did an army of elephants cross the Alps?

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Hannibal The legendary Hannibal was born in 247 B.C. in Carthage, a city in North Africa, founded centuries earlier by Middle Eastern me...

When was an electric chair used as a throne?

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History is full of curious cases such as the following case we present: Menelik II, who called himself "king of kings", became...

What is the oldest independent nation?

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Gondar Castle, Ethiopia The oldest place as an independent country is in Africa. Only 45 of today's nations were independent befor...

Do all roads lead to Rome?

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The answer is yes, or at least it was at the time of the Roman Empire. The intricate land communications system built by the Romans stretc...

What was the cause of Mozart's death?

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On December 5, 1791, the world of music lost Wolgang Amadeus Mozart . The mystery of his death was never clarified, and several hypotheses w...

Who was Elizabeth Bathory, the bloody Countess?

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Elizabeth Báthory was a 17th century Hungarian countess, wife of General Ferenz Nadasdy. She lived in the castle of Csejthe in the Carpathi...