Welcome to the 9th episode of 'History News This Week.' Please note that 'History News This Week' will be online every Sunday at 09:30 PM Indian Standard Time i.e. 04:00 PM GMT.
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Ancient Egypt breakthrough after 'false door' into 'Underworld' uncovered inside tomb
Was the last battle of the American Revolution fought in India? A growing number of historians think so
As British museums send artefacts back to their origin countries, campaign grows to return Henry VIII's 'Holy Grail' tapestry that turned up in Spain after going missing for 250 years
Netherlands to return treasures to Indonesia and Sri Lanka
What did the last common ancestor between humans and apes look like?
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Amazon India
Amazon USA
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30 for 30 Podcasts
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Coming up: History News This Week - Episode: 009
Namaste Friends. My name is 'Shinil Subramanian Payamal' and you are listening to the Historylogy podcast.
Welcome to the 9th episode of History News This Week. Please note that History News This Week will be online every Sunday at 09:30 PM Indian Standard Time i.e. 04:00 PM GMT.
First news is from Egypt.
Egyptologists stumbled across the "false door" after months of fieldwork and believe it once acted as a portal to the ancient "Underworld".
Second news is about whether the last battle of the American Revolution was fought in India?
Scholarly works back that up. In 2018, Smithsonian Books published “The American Revolution: A World War,” a collection of essays from 17 authors from eight countries that gives “a multifaceted but coherent account of the American Revolution’s international geopolitics,” according to a review in the Journal of American History.
Two key protagonists of the Revolutionary War – Britain and France – actually fought the final battle of the conflict in Cuddalore, India, in June of 1783.
Third news is from Britain.
As British museums send artefacts back to their origin countries, campaign grows to return Henry VIII's 'Holy Grail' tapestry that turned up in Spain after going missing for 250 years.
Woven with gold and silver thread and depicting one of the most famous scenes from the New Testament, the object took pride of place at Henry's Hampton Court in the 1530s.
Produced by a Flemish artist, it shows Paul burning 'heathen' books at Ephesus, as recounted in the Bible's Acts of the Apostles.
Staying with news artefacts taken from ex-colonies, the Netherlands is set to hand back hundreds of precious artefacts taken from Indonesia and Sri Lanka during its colonial period.
A report had urged the government to return items if countries requested them. The agreed restitution comes as the Netherlands increasingly confronts its colonial past.
Fifth and last is an interesting article titled ‘What did the last common ancestor between humans and apes look like?’
The closest living relatives of humans are the apes such as chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and gibbons. We all had the same common ancestor that lived during the Miocene epoch (23 million to 5 million years ago). While scientists don't have any remains of this enigmatic creature, how might it have looked?
In other words, how big was our last common ancestor (LCA), and what did its skull, brain, legs, arms and even fingers look like, based on available evidence?
We don't have all the answers. But the closest equivalents alive today may be gorillas and chimps.
Coming to the latest book release, it is ‘A History of the Barricade’ written by Eric Hazan. How the French invented the barricade, and its symbolic impact on popular protests throughout history.
Hazan traces the many stages in the barricade’s evolution, from the Wars of Religion through to the Paris Commune, drawing on the work of thinkers throughout the periods examined to illustrate and bring to life the violent practicalities of revolutionary uprising.
History podcast recommendation of the week:
‘30 for 30’ (the podcast) is an ongoing series of excellent sports documentaries. They’re relatively recent history, but history nonetheless, and always interesting.
I will provide links to all the news items, book and the podcast mentioned above in the show notes. Please feel free to check them out.
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