• Contemporary Social Studies 2010

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:06:09
    Ning Brought to you by Search Sign Up Sign In Teaching Digital History using documents , images , maps and online tools Main My Page Members Photos Videos Blogs Forum All Discussions My Discussions Add Contemporary Social Studies 2010 Posted by John Lee on December 6, 2010 at 3:03pm in Visual historical inquiry View Discussions Social studies is a big and sometimes unwieldy subject . Given with the massive body of content in the field and differentiation among pedagogical approaches , social studies educators have the space to be creative and expressive . There are certainly some agreed upon aims in social studies . In fact , there is something approaching consensus that social studies should aim to prepare young people for citizenship . But , what that process entails is a point of

  • Roman statues recovered in Spain

    Updated: 2012-03-30 20:27:38
    Two first century bronze statues about to be sold on the black market have been recovered by police in Jaen, Spain. The Roman figures, valued at six million euros each, were taken from the ancient Roman site of Sacilis Marcialis and are believed to form part of the Castor and Polix sculpture in Cordoba. The [...]

  • Falklands Anniversary events in Portsmouth

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:15:06
    Portsmouth Historic Dockyard will host a special 'mini-Navy Days' over the weekend of 5 and 6 May to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War.

  • 16th century chapel discovered in England

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:09:11
    Evidence of what may be a 16th century chapel has been uncovered in a public park in Marlow, England. Initially, the team found brickwork, apparently from the 1850s house, but then uncovered a flint work wall. MAS spokesman Doug Courtney said: “This is thought to be from the earlier 1750′s farmhouse as close inspection of [...]

  • Titanic wreck is littered with modern garbage

    Updated: 2012-03-30 14:42:54
    This is sad: The wreckage of the “unsinkable” Titanic is litter with modern day garbage. “Beer cans, plastic cups, that sort of thing,” Delgado said. “We even found a detergent box lying in the middle of the wreck site… That garbage is going to be around for a very long time.” Private deep-sea excursions – [...]

  • Expedition launched to find $800 million of Nazi stolen art

    Updated: 2012-03-30 00:03:00
    A search is underway to find a treasure trove of artworks stolen and hidden away by the Nazis during WWII. Monets, Manets, Cezannes and masterpieces by other artists, along with sculptures, carpets and tapestries, are believed to be buried in an old silver mine near the Czech-German border, 90 minutes’ drive from the city of [...]

  • Turkey claims ownership of sarcophagus

    Updated: 2012-03-29 21:32:22
    An inventory check conducted by Swiss customs officials turned up an ancient sarcophagus. Now Turkey is claiming ownership. The Journal des Arts stated that since the Swiss law on customs was reinforced in 2009 – following the discovery of 200 ancient Egyptian pieces in 2003 and the updated trafficking of diamonds through Geneva free port [...]

  • Stolen Ancient Greek statue found in goat pen

    Updated: 2012-03-29 15:27:29
    An illegally excavated statue which dates back to the sixth century B.C. has been found by police hidden in a goat pen near Athens. Greek police recovered an ancient statue that was illegally excavated and hidden in a goat pen near Athens, and arrested the goat herder and another man who were allegedly trying to [...]

  • All modern cows descended from single herd

    Updated: 2012-03-28 20:47:51
    Genetic research has show that all modern domesticated cows originated from a single herd of wild ox that lived 10,500 years ago. A team of geneticists from the National Museum of Natural History in France, the University of Mainz in Germany, and UCL in the UK excavated the bones of domestic cattle on archaeological sites [...]

  • Greek highway construction unearths sanctuary to god of healing

    Updated: 2012-03-28 17:38:51
    Highway workers in Greece have uncovered a sanctuary dedicated to Asclepios, the god of healing. The sanctuary was found some 200 kilometres north of Athens on the outskirts of the ancient port town of Dafnounta, near the present city of Lamia. It dates to the fifth century BCE and is one of the oldest associated [...]

  • In search of Australia’s only pirate

    Updated: 2012-03-28 14:38:36
    Archaeologists in Australia are hunting for evidence of the country’s only pirate: Black Jack Anderson. WA archaeologists, who went to Middle Island – the biggest island in the archipelago – during a recent expedition to the remote area, surveyed what is believed to have been Anderson’s cave in a bay on the south side of [...]

  • London Crossrail construction unearthes shipyard

    Updated: 2012-03-28 01:39:04
    A London shipyard which closed in 1912 has been uncovered by construction work on the London Crossrail. The HMS Warrior, the world’s first all-iron warship was completed at the site in October 1861 and was the largest, fastest, most heavily-armed and most heavily-armoured warship in the world. The company also set up a football club [...]

  • Ancient Hawaiians fished more than would be sustainable today

    Updated: 2012-03-27 21:30:17
    Apparently the ancient Hawaiians were able to catch three times more fish than would be sustainable to catch today. Native Hawaiians caught about 50 percent more fish than modern fleets catch today in both Hawaii and the Florida Keys, the two largest reef ecosystems in the United States, said a co-author of the study, Loren [...]

  • Collection of 18th-century telescopes found in Amsterdam

    Updated: 2012-03-27 18:24:57
    Five 18th-century telescopes made of cow bone have been found in the Netherlands. At the time, called the Enlightenment, the telescopes would have been considered luxury items and were likely used to gaze at objects on land or sea, rather than to look at the stars. They were created during a period when Amsterdam was [...]

  • Antler hammerhead and remains found in Irish cave

    Updated: 2012-03-26 17:20:04
    The 350-500-year-old remains of a teenager and a prehistoric antler hammerhead have been found in a cave in County Clare, Ireland. Dr Dowd said “the discovery of the fabulous antler hammerhead is hugely exciting. I can’t find any other parallels in Irish archaeology.” The antler came from a red deer stag aged over 6½ years [...]

  • Remains of Franciscan monks unearthed by roadworks

    Updated: 2012-03-26 14:19:55
    Roadworks in St. Andrews, Scotland, has revealed the remains of a group of Franciscan monks who lived on the site in the 15th century. The remains were found a mere 6 inches from the surface. Archaeologist Douglas Spiers said: “St Andrews is a town of considerable antiquity so we always held the possibility of archaeological [...]

  • 173- The Broken Bow

    Updated: 2012-03-25 19:54:47
    In the early 450s a string of deaths changed the political dynamic of Roman world. Between 450 and 455 Galla Placidia, Aelia Pulcheria, Atilla the Hun, Flavius Aetius and Valentinian III would all die- leaving the stage wide open for the next generation of leaders. Also, an announcment. 

  • New photos of the Titanic wreck

    Updated: 2012-03-23 21:48:51
    National Geographic has posted some amazing new photographs of the Titanic in anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the “unsinkable” ship’s sinking. With her rudder cleaving the sand and two propeller blades peeking from the murk, Titanic’s mangled stern rests on the abyssal plain, 1,970 feet south of the more photographed bow. This optical mosaic [...]

  • Lost section of Great Wall of China found using Google Earth

    Updated: 2012-03-23 18:13:01
    What may be a newly discovered section of the Great Wall of China has been spotted in Mongolia by researchers using Google Earth. At times seeking out topographic clues seen in Google Earth—the wall is visible on satellite images—the team located two well preserved but contrasting stretches of wall. One section had been made mainly [...]

  • Ancient shipwreck was delivering cargo to Apollon Temple

    Updated: 2012-03-23 15:19:08
    Research on a shipwreck discovered in the Aegean in 1993 has revealed that the cargo was on it’s way to the Apollon Temple in Claros. Five years of conservation work have revealed that the ship, known as the K?z?lburun shipwreck, took its name from the ancient name of Marmara Island, “Prokenessos,” and sank during a [...]

  • Marks on sloth bone suggests earlier North American settlement

    Updated: 2012-03-23 01:37:51
    Analysis of butcher marks on the bones of a 13,000-year-old sloth suggests that people migrated into Northern Ohio 700 years before the Clovis people. The discovery of what appear to be dozens of cut marks on the femur of a gargantuan, 1,300-kilogram Jefferson’s ground sloth is being hailed as the earliest trace of a human [...]

  • 1,000-year-old remains to be reburied

    Updated: 2012-03-22 18:06:36
    The ancient remains of 53 people unearthed during the construction of a dam in Utah are set to be reburied this spring. A final resting place is finally coming for 53 people whose remains have been kept in a metal box for years. The first set of Native American bones was found almost five years [...]

  • Spy satellite imagery reveals ancient landscape

    Updated: 2012-03-22 15:56:16
    Researchers have developed a new method to identify ancient human settlements by using satellite imagery. Beyond the impressive mounds of earth, known as tells in Arabic, that mark lost cities, researchers have found a way to give archaeologists a broader perspective of the ancient landscape. By combining spy-satellite photos obtained in the 1960s with modern [...]

  • Ancient metal equestrian bit unearthed in Israel

    Updated: 2012-03-21 19:48:23
    The earliest known metal equestrian bit has been found at a burial site in Israel. The bit was discovered in an equid burial site at Tel-Haror, and had probably been used on a donkey. Archaeologists led by Professor Eliezer Oren, from Ben Gurion University, made the discovery in a layer of material dating from 1750 [...]

  • Some Neanderthals had brown eyes, dark skin

    Updated: 2012-03-21 17:42:48
    A genetic study of two Neanderthal females found in Croatia has revealed that they had brown hair and brown eyes. The study has provoked deep skepticism among several outside researchers, however, who criticize numerous aspects of its methodology. The results also run contrary to other genetic evidence and to a long-held hypothesis that Neandertals, who [...]

  • Vikings brought mice everywhere except Canada

    Updated: 2012-03-21 14:41:58
    New research indicates that the Vikings brought mice with them wherever they went – all except for Canada. The new research is described as further proof of the inhospitable conditions encountered by Viking seafarers led by Leif Ericsson when they landed at L’Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland. The harsh Canadian climate and the Vikings’ [...]

  • A Tale of One City – A new community history website for Portsmouth

    Updated: 2012-03-20 20:21:57
    Today sees the launch of a brand new community history website for Portsmouth, A Tale of One City - rather wittily named to coincide with the bicentenary of Charles Dickens.

  • 172- Showdown

    Updated: 2012-03-19 02:32:40
    In 451 Atilla the Hun invaded the West. He was repelled by a coalition of forces lead by the General Aetius. 

  • 171- The Gathering Storm

    Updated: 2012-03-11 18:45:04
    After placating Atilla with yet another indemnity, Theodosius II fell from his horse and died in 450, leaving the Eastern throne vacant.

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