Revista History Today I Enero 2018. Historia En Inglés

The Phoenicians were the great maritime traders of the ancient Mediterranean.

The Map: Canterbury Cathedral, 12th century
An aerial view of a hydraulic system that pumped fresh water into the monastic complex.

Sacred Songs for the Dead
Women had few powers in Ancient Greece – except in death.

German East Africa after the First World War
The peoples of Germany’s African colonies recovered from the conflict against all the odds.

National Gallery: Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan, from Silk Road to Soviet Union.

Death of Nikola Tesla
Child genius, engineer, inventor and physicist, Nikola Tesla died on 7 January 1943.

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The Air of Freedom
Before the British Empire and the Atlantic slave trade, Africans lived freely in Tudor England.

All’s Fair in Blood and War
The pain of war had at least one positive side-effect: medical advances in haematology.

The Last Death of Catholic England
The grand funeral of Anne of Cleves, the neglected fourth queen of Henry VIII, took place during the reign of Mary Tudor, when English Catholicism was resurgent.

The Battle for Oil in the First World War
At the beginning of the 20th century the Great Powers competed for the right to extract the vast oil reserves around the Iraqi city of Mosul. The motivation and prize was energy security