Ancient World
Heliodorus Pillar: A Greek Envoy's Tribute to Vishnu, 113 BC
A Greek ambassador dedicated a Garuda standard to Vasudeva, leaving one of the earliest dated records of Vishnu devotion.
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Every Chronicle article on world history, newest first: battles, empires, disasters, discoveries and revolutions.
Ancient World
Spartacus and the Third Servile War (73-71 BC): Slave Revolt
The revolt was crushed by Crassus in 71 BC; Spartacus died in battle and about 6,000 captured rebels were crucified along the Appian Way.
Ancient World
Pericles' Funeral Oration (431 BC): Athens Praises Democracy
A celebrated speech honouring the first Athenian dead of the Peloponnesian War, which became a classic statement of democratic ideals.
Ancient World
Colossi of Memnon: Twin Statues of Amenhotep III at Thebes
The statues survived the destruction of Amenhotep III's mortuary temple and became one of the most visited sights of the Roman world.
Ancient World
Hanging Gardens of Babylon: The Lost Wonder of the Ancient World
Listed among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but no trace has been securely identified at Babylon and their location and existence remain debated.
Prehistory
Tarxien Temples: Spiral Carvings of Prehistoric Malta
The last great temple complex of prehistoric Malta, abandoned around 2500 BC and later reused as a Bronze Age cremation cemetery.
Prehistory
Gebel el-Arak Knife: A Predynastic Egyptian Masterpiece
The knife became a key piece of evidence for contact between late Predynastic Egypt and Uruk-period Mesopotamia.
Prehistory
Cheddar Man: Britain's Oldest Near-Complete Skeleton
The skeleton became Britain's best-known Mesolithic human, and its 2018 genome analysis reshaped public ideas about the appearance of early Britons.
Prehistory
Clovis Culture: The Ice Age Hunters of Ancient North America
A widespread Ice Age tool tradition of North America, once thought to mark the first Americans but now known to post-date earlier human settlement.
Prehistory
Late Devonian Extinction: The Kellwasser and Hangenberg Events
Roughly three-quarters of marine species disappeared in several pulses; the great Devonian reef systems collapsed and the armoured placoderm fishes died out.
Modern Era
Doolittle Raid (1942): The First American Air Attack on Tokyo
Light physical damage to Japan but a major boost to American morale; all 16 aircraft were lost and Japan responded with a punitive campaign in eastern China and a push to take Midway.
Modern Era
Representation of the People Act 1918: British Women Win the Vote
About 8.4 million women and some 5 million more men gained the vote, almost tripling the British electorate.