“All the objects shone in the sunshine as on the day they were buried.” — Basil Brown’s diary, August of 1939. Britain’s “Dark Ages” may have formally ended in a field in Suffolk, England, on July 21, 1939. That’s when archaeologist Peggy Piggott uncovered a tiny gold pyramid encrusted with garnets from the Sutton Hoo […]
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Warrior Women (Part 2)
“Their marriage law lays it down, that no girl shall wed until she has killed a man in battle.” — Herodotus, circa 600 B.C., writing about the Sauromatae, mythical descendents of Amazons Herodotus, so-called Father of History, had much to say about Amazons, the legendary race of women warriors who nearly bested Greek soldiers while […]
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A Country to Call Home
It’s 8 a.m. in Ioannina, (pronounced Ee-Yah-neena) a college town of about 100,000 people that dates back to the 6th century in the Epirus region of Northwestern Greece. The town is situated next to picturesque Lake Pamvotis with the snowcapped Pindhos mountains as its backdrop and a centuries-old Byzantine Castle perched on its western shore. Ioannina […]