The Afterlife and the process of Mummification
Do you find this weird? The Ancient Egyptians believed in life after death, and their belief was that parts of them went to the Afterlife, in fact those parts that went into the Afterlife were: The Ka, Ancient Egyptian conception of the soul, which could bring the corpse back to life. The Ba, the spirit, […]
Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun’s tomb
On November 4th 1922 Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh King Tutankhamun. He had been employed by Lord Carnarvon since 1907 looking after the excavations of the tombs in Deir el-Bahri, near Thebes. Then in 1914, Lord Carnarvon received the concession to dig in the Valley of the Kings, and again he asked Howard Carter […]
The canal of the Pharaohs
The Suez Canal blocked, what can they do? The Suez Canal became famous recently when the container ship Evergreen got stuck in the canal. The Suez Canal is today’s major route for goods coming from the Far East to Europe. When it got blocked, the world panicked. Today’s canal, which took ten years to build, […]
Did Christopher Columbus discover America?
October 16th 1492 Christopher Columbus’ fleet anchored at “Fernandina” He thought he had reached America! No, he hadn’t he had reached Long Island in the Bahamas. However, he goes down in history as having found America, which of course he didn’t, well not this time. He crossed the Atlantic another three times starting the Spanish […]
A novel way to invent
Elias Howe Jr This is one of those amazing stories, so amazing you have to hear it On September 10th 1846 Elias Howe Jr was granted a patent for the sewing machine. However, I am fascinated by the story as he told everyone how he came up with the invention. He claimed it came to […]
Who was I K Brunel’s father?
Many people have said that Isombard Kingdom Brunel was our greatest engineer, which led me to wonder from where he came, did his background help him? The answer is a great big, yes. His father, Sir Marc Brunel, was an amazing engineer, of whom nobody has heard. He was born in Hacqueville, Normandy, France, but […]
Nellie Bly – Went round the world in 72 days
Well, on November 14th 1889 Nellie Bly left New York in the steamer Augusta Victoria as she thought she could, and she did, returning to New York 72 days later. Nellie Bly was a New York World journalist. She was fascinated by the book Around the World in Eighty Days in which Phileas Fogg fictionally […]
The amazing George Francis Train
This man organised the first clipper to sail around the Horne, set up the Union Pacific Railway, then Trans Continental Railway. He came to England and set up the Horse Tramway Company. He was the inspiration of Jules Verne’s book Around the World in 80 days as he went around the world in 80 days, […]
Violet Jessop – the queen of Sinking ships
Let’s make history fun, learn about the story of “The Queen of Sinking Ships”. This is the amazing story about a lady called Violet Jessop, who was a stewardess on the Titanic. She was born in Argentina to an Irish family. Then when she was 16 her father died and the family came to England. […]
The Battle of Gravelines
in 1558
Have you ever heard of the Gravelines, and did you know it was the site of a decisive battle the Armada in 1558? First of all, where is it? Gravelines is at […]