THE IRISH SLAVE TRADE
The Irish slave trade began when 30,000 Irish prisoners were sold as slaves to the New World. The King James I Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent…
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The Irish slave trade began when 30,000 Irish prisoners were sold as slaves to the New World. The King James I Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent…
Chief Remi Fani-Kayode Who is Chief Remi Fani-Kayode? Chief Remi Fani-Kayode (1921-1995) was the man who successfully moved the motion for Independence on August 2, 1958. Anthony Enahoro moved the…
Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, a gigantic mammalian carnivore that lived 22 million years ago in Africa and was larger than a polar bear, is seen in this artist’s illustration released in Athens,…
Callao Cave on Luzon Island, in the Philippines, where the fossils of newly identified hominin species Homo luzonensis were discovered Thirteen fossil bones and teeth excavated in a cave in…
Former Second Republic President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari died yesterday, 28 December, aged 93. He was taken to the hospital on Christmas Day and placed on admission. Alhaji Shagari died…
Professor Jon Adams of The Black Sea Maritime Archaeology project holding a 3D model of a Greek shipwreck from 400BC, officially the World’s oldest intact shipwreck, at the Wellcome Collection,…
Two newly discovered early amphibians Tutusius and Umzantsia that lived about 360 million years ago during the Devonian Period whose partial remains were unearthed at the Waterloo Farm site in…
An infrared image of the male mummy known as ‘Gebelein Man’ can be seen in this photograph issued by The British Museum in London, Britain Researchers have discovered the oldest…
The oldest known message in a bottle was found on an Australian beach 132 years after being thrown from a German ship in the Indian Ocean as part of an…
Remains of a mask in the Sac Actun underwater cave in Mexico’s Quintana Roo state Archaeologists exploring the word’s biggest flooded cave in Mexico have discovered ancient human remains at…