3 stories from this century.
When the Knights Hospitaller built the Castle of Saint Peter at Bodrum in the early 15th century, they used the marble of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus — one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World — as quarry stone. The Mausoleum had stood for 1,700 years. The castle stands today.
Read the story →The standard narrative of European maritime expansion credits Vasco da Gama with finding the sea route from Africa to India in 1498. The Portuguese sailed the route. The man who navigated them across the Indian Ocean was almost certainly an Arab named Ahmad ibn Majid.
Read the story →Before he killed Richard III at Bosworth and founded the Tudor dynasty, Henry Tudor was a 14-year-old Welsh nobleman fleeing England after the Yorkist victory of 1471. He spent the next fourteen years as a guest, prisoner, and pawn at the Breton court.
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