In 1803, two British sailors climbed the ancient Roman column ‘Pompey’s Pillar’, affixed a weather vane to the top, ate steaks and toasted to King George III
They say Iceland was first settled by Viking explorers & their slaves in around 874 AD
The Viking who colonised Vinland then battled over the Canadian coastline
Lincoln J. Beachey was the world’s greatest aviator who performed flight exhibitions in front of 30 million people during his career
One of the oldest lighthouses in South Africa, the Cape Agulhas Lighthouse was built in the ancient Egyptian style
The Great Mosque of Djenné: The largest mud-built structure in the world and one of the finest examples of Sudano-Sahelian architecture
DNA from the deep? Antikythera shipwreck produces ancient human bones
Hibaku Jumoku: The trees that survived the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima
Humans found buried with strangled dogs at Prehistoric site in Peru
The Greek navy maintains a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme, the HS Olympias, it is the only ship of its kind in the world
