Unexplained creations of our ancestors Even though many ancient cultures didn’t have a written language we still know a huge amount about them because after all, they were just like us but much more primitive. They still needed to farm crops and build homes just like...
How far can a medieval army march in a day? What people consider bushcraft and survival skills today would be common knowledge for people during the medieval period, and surviving a long journey would require more than just the ability to walk. In a time before the...
How did our ancestors make leather The oldest known piece of leather in the world was discovered in a cave in the Vayotz Dzor province of Armenia and is thought to be from around 3,500 BCE which would make it about 500 years older than the pyramids of Giza. Even...
How did our ancestors discover Bronze? The Stone Age is considered the period in human history where the most advanced things on the planet that people were able to create were sharpened pieces of stone, but this invention was more important than it sounds. Hunting...
5 extremely dangerous jobs our ancestors had to do If you’re lucky enough to live in a country that has health and safety laws then you should be thankful, because up until relatively recently the attitude of “we don’t care and there’s nothing you can do about it” was...
Surviving the first ever voyage to America Many people have heard the names of the famous explorers who were the first people to reach the American continent, like Christopher Columbus and Sir Francis Drake, but few know the name Leif Erikson, a Viking explorer from...
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