The saga has been retold for hundreds of years and has become even harder to trace back to truth because of the many views on the account mainly by Homer’s take on the event in his fictions The Odyssey and The Iliad. His versions both contain gods and portray Achilles as immortal except for the heel of his foot. The movie Troy, aside from a bit of dramatization and a few minor twists in the tale, is probably more accurate than not. The main question that has been posed is if Troy really existed. Manfred Korfmann, a German archeologist, has led excavations on the site believed to be Troy told of by legends for the past 16 years.
The debate continues to spread to the Eastern European country of Turkey. Özgen Acar is a Turkish investigative worker who has slowly seen looted antiquities make their way back to Turkey. He has coined the phrase, “History is beautiful where it belongs” which was used in a statewide campaign to raise awareness about restitution. Acar’s most accomplished feat came from suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York over the Lydian treasures. The adventure began in 1970 when a British journalist teamed up with Acar to determine if one of the best museums in the world had in fact, knowingly purchased looted antiquities.
D’varsiya Rush Febuary7, 2013 Beasley A.C. Room226Grade6 A king's final hours, told by his mortal remains Skeleton of Richard III reveals a violent and chaotic end By Rachel Ehrenberg Skeleton of Richard III reveals a violent and chaotic end By Rachel Ehrenberg Web edition: February 6, 2013 O BLOODY RICHARD! The recently excavated bones of England’s King Richard III bear witness to his infamous life and death. Severe scoliosis curved his spine, which may have been painful and made it difficult to breathe. Of the 10 wounds discovered on his skeleton, two are candidates for the death blow: a blade
This occurred sometime around 509 BC, and led to the creation of a new form of government called a republic.1 However, as the centuries passed, the republican dream slowly began to fade. Quite obviously, many things happened in the world of Rome that led to the eventual collapse of the Roman Republic. At around 133 BC, Rome was a republic. But less than a hundred years later, an emperor ruled it.1 An imperial system as a form of government was very different from the system that was envisioned by the Romans when they deposed the last king near the end of the 6th century BC. An imperial system was against everything Romans stood for.
The white circles are archaeological sites. (Courtesy William Banks) According to Stephan Schuster, a geneticist at the Pennsylvania State University, the first draft of the Neanderthal genome is likely to contain many errors. He estimates that getting a completely accurate DNA sequence will require taking five separate samples from the same individual, and sequencing that genome 30
Java man was the “missing link”, he proclaimed. All over the world, people started to hunt for traces of our distant ancestors. With every new fossil they found it became ever clearer that there was not just one “missing link” but a whole chain of them between apes and modern man. Comparison of the fossils that Dubois found on Java in the nineteenth century with other finds from Africa has revealed that what Dubois found was actually a Homo erectus. In 1972 Mary Leakey’s son, Richard, and Alan Walker were looking for fossils near Lake Turkana in Kenya.
In James Swanson’s book “Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln’s Corpse,” the author gave a unique perspective on two remarkable historical events. Swanson’s book described the time nearing the close of the Civil War, but took a much different approach than I have ever encountered. Rather than speaking of the Union and Confederacy and the battles the ended the war, Swanson focused on the expedition of Lincoln’s body after his assassination, while at the same time, telling of Jefferson Davis’ elaborate journey to elude capture. “Bloody Crimes” compiled two very different historical events and connected them in one novel unlike any other. First I commend Swanson on his favorable portrayal of Davis, a man who is rarely positively revered in history, undoubtedly due to his Confederacy ties.
The eventual collapse of the weimar Republic was brought upon by many factors and even though there is much disagreement among historians about the eventuall trigger, there is a general consencous on the factors leading to the downfall of German democracy. One of the views carried by historians is the Determinist view which basically states that the conditions under which the Republic was created far too extreme and the structure of the republic was serverely weakened, so much so that its downfall was inevitable. The other view was the Alternate view which while acknowledging the structual weaknesses of the Republic, states that the republic had the ability and reselience to recover, but instead lacked sufficient political leadership and a lack of determination to see through their troubles. One of the triggers of the collapse of the weiman republic was article 48 of the German constitution, which granted the president with emergency powers which allowed him to assume full control of the country. This trigger is held highly among determinist historians as one of the reasons the republic was doomed to fail from the start.
Evolution of Forensic Science and Criminology Misti Tull Everest Online CJE-1640-1m Evolution of Forensic Science and Criminology Sir Francis Galton has contributed many things on fingerprinting but the major one has been finding the method of classifying them for study. In 1892 he printed a book titled Finger Prints this book stated the statistics on the method of personal identification. (Page 8 ch 1) Mathieu Orfila is known as the father of toxicology, he is known of this because in 1814 he was the first person to print a book on the detection of poisons and their effects on animals. The book establishes forensic toxicology as a legitimate study. (Page 7 ch1) One contribution is the journal he has written is about the improved methods of scientific crime detection and this still reports today.
With a colossal spread of over 1,260,000km², granting it the largest known ancient civilization. For over seven hundred years, the Indus civilization was thriving with excellence as seen in modern day religion & business, this soon declined and disappeared. But how could a civilization of such magnitude disappear leaving very little or even no traces? Archaeological excavations of Harappan sites began in 1842 by Charles Masson; many archaeologists persistently furthered the excavation of these sites. During this process, pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that is the Indus Valley Civilization have been fixed together suggesting answers to questions, but an extreme lack of definitive proof.