It’s not lost on me, the irony of writing about mobility while sitting at my desk for hours, with a bent spine and cramped stomach. I’ve spent the last few years writing a book about past movement and mobility; footprints becoming trails that turn into a torrent of trods and …
Read More »‘It stands over us like a giant’s dining table’: on the trail of the UK’s ancient stones
Up on Cornwall’s Penwith Moors time takes a strange quality. Here the landscape is a morass of knotted bracken and bristly gorse, a soft marigold tinge signalling warmer summer days. A grey smudge of cloud sags on the horizon and the wind whirs like white noise, a low and disorientating …
Read More »5 most prominent ancient African kingdoms
Here are the five most prominent ancient African kingdom; 1)The Benin Empire The great Benin Empire located in present-day Nigeria was quite prominent during the 13th to 19th centuries. The Kingdom of Benin at the time was famous for its wealth, trade, agriculture, and craftsmanship. The king was referred to …
Read More »Charles Is Crowned King in Ancient Ceremony With Modern Twists
Anointed with holy oil and enthroned on St. Edward’s chair, King Charles III was crowned on Saturday in a solemn ritual that stretches back more than a millennium but unfolded with multiple concessions to the modern age. The coronation, the first since Queen Elizabeth II’s in 1953, was a royal …
Read More »‘A missing link in ancient Scottish history’: on the trail of the Picts
Beatles on the radio, stones on their mind, the masons are on their way to work. Got to Get You Into My Life finds an answering fanfare from daffodils on the verges as the van growls past. Scotland map They park by Aberlemno village hall. There is a job to …
Read More »Rites of spring: the Lake District’s ancient stones marking the passage of the seasons
Spring is coming, and I am planning a pilgrimage. I’m going to the vast landscape of the Lake District to visit two of the country’s most picturesque and fascinating prehistoric monuments: Castlerigg stone circle and Long Meg and Her Daughters. Castlerigg, a circle of 38 boulders of varying sizes, the …
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: I Went to Ancient Aliens, And It Showed Me What Unites Humanity When Everything Else Divides Us
I’m a birthday person; I spend my birthday doing what I want, watching what I want on television, and eating what I want. I’m not all that into big parties or big gifts; in fact, most of my birthdays when I was in the service I spent working. However, last …
Read More »Cycling ancient trails: off-road on an e-bike in Pembrokeshire’s Preseli Hills
The path on which I’m riding my e-mountain bike across the hills of north Pembrokeshire is known as a bridleway, but to Ed Sykes, who grew up in these hills, it’s an “e-trail”. Ed is the founder of Hidden Routes in Newport (between Cardigan and Fishguard), an e-mountain biking outfit …
Read More »In search of progress and development of the Owo Ancient Kingdom
Ms Oyindamola Lami Adeyemi, the Executive Chairperson of Tirex Energy and Petroleum Limited, played host to His Imperial Majesty, Oba (Dr) Ajibade Gbadegeshin Ogunoye lll, Olowo of Owo, when he paid a royal visit to one of the most industrious and illustrious women of Owo kingdom. The royal father’s visit, …
Read More »‘In a single walk you can see an acropolis, falcons and eagles’: hiking Greece’s ancient island paths
Beauty is all around us on the bright April morning my daughter and I climb a path marked as a donkey trail on our map of the Cycladic island of Sifnos. Butterflies flit over terraced meadows brimming with wild lupins, red poppies, and soft, green grasses. A whitewashed chapel is …
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