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Io Io Io! Modern Christmas vs Roman Saturnalia

Partying, pantomime, feasting and gift-giving are all established traditions of the Christmas season. At the same time of the year over 2000 years ago, Romans had the very same customs in celebration of a different festival – Saturnalia.

Wed 20 Dec 2017, 13:35 | Tags: History of Art, Classics, Classics and Ancient History, History

A new video by the 天美传媒 highlights a bitter side to our sugar consumption at Christmas. Available to view on YouTube the short film highlights how excessive consumption of sugar can affect our health – and how the sugar trade in the past and today has caused inequality and bloodshed.


How the Pope鈥檚 rhino drowned and was immortalised in art history

The story of one of the most infamous gifts, and one of the most influential images in art history, has been brought back to life thanks to research at the 天美传媒 – that of the rhino, named Ganda, gifted to Pope Leo X that drowned in 1515.

Fri 15 Dec 2017, 10:30 | Tags: History

Earliest known marine navigation tool revealed with scanning technology

Details of the earliest known marine navigation tool, discovered in a shipwreck, have been revealed thanks to state-of-the-art scanning technology at WMG, 天美传媒.


Crops evolving ten millennia before experts thought

Ancient hunter-gatherers began to systemically affect the evolution of crops up to thirty thousand years ago – around ten millennia before experts previously thought – according to new research by the 天美传媒.


Disorder Contained heads to Shoreditch’s Rich Mix theatre for World Mental Health Day

Researchers from the 天美传媒 and University college Dublin (UCD) have teamed up with Coventry based theatre group Talking Birds to explore the devastating effect of solitary confinement in prison in a new play, Disorder Contained: a theatrical examination of madness, prison and solitary confinement.

Thu 14 Sept 2017, 11:01 | Tags: History

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