Chronicles of the past 2024, April

According to scientists, the construction of housing and religious buildings began long before our era, because there are still fragments of buildings that, even for the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, were considered ancient buildings, causing increased interest. Naturally, most of the oldest architectural masterpieces were restored completely, but from this they did not lose their significance

110 years ago, the American archaeologist Hiram Bingham discovered in the Andes an Inca fortress, known today as Machu Picchu and, presumably, was one of the residences of the Inca rulers. Historians still argue about when the fortress was built and under what circumstances the inhabitants left it

The appearance of Russian troops in Transcaucasia was preceded by a number of important events. In 1586 Georgia made an attempt to acquire Russian citizenship

In the period between the reigns of Augustus and Theodosius I, numerous Egyptian obelisks were taken to Europe. These ancient monoliths made a lasting impression on almost any conqueror. But in ancient Rome, their meaning was multifaceted, and also personified imperial power

The landscape of the Lao Xiankhuang plateau is dotted with thousands of stone jugs - hollow megaliths that expand at their base and are quite large in size. Somewhere these mysterious objects stand one by one, and somewhere - in groups, sometimes numbering more than a hundred pieces

Ruins for artists is an opportunity to touch upon the themes of decay and eternity, "play" with time, transfer the action to the past or the future, or even to a parallel world. Buildings destroyed by time, elements or people are decorated with a huge number of drawings and canvases; they became part of the scenery, then the central object to which all attention is directed

On the Greek island of Euboea, there is a real archaeological mystery: 25 huge structures called Drakospita or Dragon Houses. Built from megalithic limestone blocks that form a pyramid-shaped roof, the mysterious dragon houses are a true mystery of antiquity

The Sphinxes on the University Embankment, before arriving in St. Petersburg, stood in the courtyard of the funeral temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in Thebes, on the western bank of the Nile

Now you can still find unique buildings, so old that at the time of ancient civilizations they were considered artifacts. Despite the fact that the merciless time, natural disasters and wars have erased the trail of most ancient structures, some structures have retained not only a recognizable appearance, but have not lost their special significance even after millennia

Columbus ordered all residents over the age of 14 to hand over a thimble of golden sand or 25 pounds of cotton to the Spaniards every three months

The People's House of Emperor Nicholas II in St. Petersburg, in which the First All-Russian Congress on Public Education was held from December 1913 to January 1914, teachers from all the depths of the Russian Empire gathered to discuss the current problems of public education, and the adopted plan for a general MANDATORY learning

He studied from 1968-1978 and was hammered into our heads - The empire was rotten, a plow, and a pick, a hoe and a scythe. People who were nailed by landowners and only revolutionaries wished for the good themselves without working, they killed all the tsars, officials were heroes and raised the same uprisings freeing the people from the stupidity of the impassable, because they were downtrodden idiots, well, of course, except for the revolutionaries. Then the progress was set up for everyone in the villa, the freedom of everyone and into space .. which is still being crushed even by adequate bloggers

Beauty requires sacrifice. It was this phrase that guided girls in the 18th century, allowing hairdressers to erect complex structures up to one and a half meters high on their heads! Not only noble ladies' own hair was used, but also ribbons, jewelry, flowers, fruits, fabrics. Novate.ru decided to figure out what sacrifices the lady of that time had to make in order to keep these works of art on their heads for as long as possible

The plot of "Taras Bulba" is dedicated to the events of the 17th century, according to school textbooks. But not everything is so simple in Gogol's chronology

If declassified foreign spies were expelled from the country or imprisoned, then Soviet citizens recruited by the CIA or MI6 would inevitably face execution

He wrote scripts for Marlene Dietrich, drank with Remarque and Chaliapin and received millions for his plays. The Nazis forced playwright Karl Zuckmeier to flee to the United States, where he plowed land on a farm and secretly worked for the future CIA

War spoils - the official booty from the battle was taken at all times. The Second World War was no exception in this respect, especially since the collection of trophies helped to improve the situation with the material support of the troops and even the economic situation. Separate types of enemy weapons and equipment were used by soldiers on both sides of the front. Let's see what things we tried to capture in the first place if possible

During the construction of the metro in such a large historical city as Moscow, it was realistic to hope that you would find many artifacts. And so it happened: large-scale work on the construction of tunnels and the construction of underground lobbies helped archaeologists to make many interesting discoveries and learn more about the history of ancient Moscow. It often happened that workers found artifacts by accident, and the more fun it was to study them

We have already talked more than once about phenomena that do not fit into the world outlook of modern people. Recently we talked about fake artifacts, but there are also real objects from archaic civilizations, whose technology science has not figured out. For example, traces of a highly developed civilization remained on the territory of modern Japan. The objects are concentrated in the town of Asuka, 60 km from the city of Kyota. The megalith park, the granite buildings are perfect, the niches seem to be melted or carved. But with what help

Each year brings new discoveries to mankind, including archaeological ones. This year was no exception. Scientific research in 2016 made it possible not only to open the veil of secrecy over the events of antiquity, but also to rewrite some pages of history

Everyone who was fond of searching in Google Maps noticed that some parts of the maps, apparently for reasons of secrecy, either have such a low resolution that nothing can be viewed on them, or are completely retouched

Padre Crespi has been collecting ancient artifacts for over 50 years. It contained mysterious gold plates with drawings that could contain information from the “mysterious metal library. After Crespi's death, traces of the collection are lost

In almost all authoritarian and totalitarian states of the twentieth century, leaders and dictators highly appreciated sports and used it in the interests of the regime - to strengthen the morale of the population, physical fitness of citizens

The statement by the head of the Archives Department of the Sverdlovsk Region, Alexander Kapustin, in an interview with Oblgazeta about the repressions in the 1930s, that most of the convicts received their punishment deservedly. And for the most part this concerned not ordinary people, but middle and top managers, caused indignation among part of the public

Modern archeology is a discipline that strictly regulates how to carry out excavations, how to store and restore finds, how to handle animals and human bones, and how to museumize an excavation site. But until recently, archaeological interest was not much different from the excitement of a treasure hunter

At the end of the 16th century, a very, very strange event took place in the Russian city of Uglich. A huge alarm bell was pulled out to the town square. A specially summoned blacksmith in front of all honest people cut off the "tongue" bell

After the labors of changing Russia, Peter the Great had fun, arranging grandiose drunkenness. The rest of the tsar, as well as his reforms, the subjects looked on with horror

The year 988 became a conditional boundary that divided the history of Ancient Rus into "before" and "after". In the 11th century, paganism tried to regain lost ground

In war, all means are good - this phrase is especially relevant for battles in the Middle Ages, when any tricks were used. That there is only the English king Richard I the Lionheart, who fought on a stretcher during the crusade. Or William I the Conqueror, who had to prove that he was alive, because because of false rumors, the army began to scatter

Who are the medieval inquisitors? Who were they hunting? Did witches really exist? Have they been burned at the stake? How many people were killed?

The history of the Russian state of the 15th-16th centuries known to us has a huge number of white spots due to the lack of written sources - the fault was not only frequent city fires, but also periods of political turmoil, during which real facts on paper were distorted to please the new rulers

In the comments to articles and videos about Tartary, we are sometimes asked to pay attention to the fact that Tartary is a non-Russian state. Well, let's deal with genetics. Let's look at the ruling dynasties of the Tatar-Scythians, at the research of DNA genealogy, in particular, the so-called "Aryan" haplogroup R1a

300 years of the Roman-German yoke: how the Great Tartary lost and the Russian Empire arose Historian, author of the book "Masters of the Great Eurasian Empire" Dmitry Belousov tells about the event after which the powerful empire actually ceased to exist

Is it true that the tsar tortured animals in childhood, personally executed people and was nicknamed the Terrible for these atrocities? Did he exhaust all his wives and kill his son? A strong ruler who raised Russia from its knees, or a madman, who also suffers from seizures? Understanding what is true and what is not

In the comments to articles and videos about Tartary, we are sometimes asked to pay attention to the fact that Tartary is a non-Russian state. Well, let's deal with genetics. Let's look at the ruling dynasties of the Tatar-Scythians, at the research of DNA genealogy, in particular, the so-called "Aryan" haplogroup R1a

Details about the Eastern European lands and that part of "Tartary" that lay within the boundaries of the Russian state, Europeans began to learn in the 16th century, when the political and economic role of Muscovy greatly increased, which means that more and more people came to this country on business. Trade and diplomacy became the locomotive of knowledge

In recent years, a war has been unleashed in the Russian media against the Russians. Paradox? No, it’s a pattern. This is war. And we have to defend ourselves. According to the results of the 2010 population census. the Russian population is 82%. According to the norms of UNESCO and the United Nations, a country is mono-national if 66.6% of the population are representatives of the same nationality

By the beginning of the 2000s, when there was no Internet in the form we have today, the books by A. Fomenko and G. Nosovsky made an indelible impression on me. The story is no longer boring. The authors of "New Chronology" FOR THE FIRST TIME invited their readers to consider the evidence base for dating historical events from the official history

We are talking about the geographical maps of the world, created in 1513. They were drawn by the Turkish admiral Piri Reis. The maps were found in 1929, have been studied a lot since then, and they raise more questions than answers. And it makes you rethink history - is it true what we know about the discovery of America and Antarctica? Most likely, the Europeans knew much more about the southern and western parts of the Earth than modern science claims

Probably every inhabitant of the Earth knows from school that gunpowder was invented by the Chinese. At least this is what children were taught in the USSR, and even now this is what they are taught in Russia. But is it really so?