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Oct 12, 20215 min read

Sep 28 The Obelisk that 'witnessed' St Peters Death

We go back to year 1586 and travel to Rome where a large pink granite obelisk known as "The Witness", was moved to its present location...

Oct 2, 20214 min read

Sep 25 Rudolph Otto and the Idea of the Holy

Today in 1869 we remember the birth near Hannover in Germany of Rudolph Otto. He is now regarded as one of the most influential...

Aug 20, 20214 min read

Aug 17 Excavating Armageddon

Today we travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Clarence Stanley Fisher was born in 1876. He would devote his life to Near Eastern...

Jul 27, 20214 min read

July 28 The Iron Age Stone which tells story of Israel

Today an English archaeologist, Flinders Petrie discovered a remarkable stone with an inscription on it by the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh...

Jul 2, 20213 min read

July 3 Prester John and Marco Polo

For more than 500 years, Europeans believed a Christian king ruled over a vast empire somewhere in the wilds of Africa, India or the Far...

May 21, 20213 min read

May 22 Papal Rome and the Trevi Fountain

Today the famous Trevi Fountain was finished by Pannini, and was officially opened and inaugurated on this day by Pope Clement XIII. We...

May 1, 20213 min read

May 2 The Polymath Priest who studied the Plague

The last polymath of the renaissance era was Fr Antanasius Kircher SJ. A giant among seventeenth-century scholars and at the dawn of the...

Mar 31, 20213 min read

Apr 1 - The Last Supper

Today we remember the foundation Christian meal of the Last Supper. Looking at Colin Humphrey's research we can historically date it to...

Jan 29, 20212 min read

Jan 12 Digging up the Bible

Today in 1897 we remember an amazing discovery in ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus, in Egypt. Two English archaeologists, Bernard...

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