5 Things our ancestors built that no one can explain Most ancient structures are exactly how you’d expect them to be, with the level of technology at the time matching the architecture and the way they were built. Sites like burial mounds and castles have their...
Survival food of the 1600s During the 1600’s the superpowers of Europe developed boat-building technology to sail around the world, and this new type of ship construction allowed them to reach new and exotic lands, meet unique and interesting individuals, and promptly...
From the Ice Age to the Iron Age, the diet of early Britain The complete diet of humans in times as far back as the ice age will never be fully known, mostly because people who hadn’t discovered pottery yet didn’t exactly have the option of writing things down. The...
How did they survive winter in the Bronze Age? The Bronze Age in Britain started around 3,000 BCE after the Copper Age, a short 500-year period of the country’s first metal age. The discovery of how to make bronze gave people huge advantages over their previous...
How did Stone Age people survive winter? The human race has been through some hard times since we’ve been around, but little comes close to the challenge of surviving through a Stone Age winter. Lacking any kind of proper clothing and having to live in homes...
How to survive a voyage to America in the 17th century The very first English colony established in North America was Jamestown on May 14, 1607, a tiny fort-like village built on the banks of the James River. It didn’t take long for people back home to realise the...