Ian Harvey
Ian Harvey is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by Ian Harvey:
Collision of a luxury passenger steamer and a fishing vessel in fog off the coast of Newfoundland was the impetus for the policy of “women and children first”
An ancient grave of two lovers holding hands unearthed in Siberia
An enormous amount of knowledge and effort went to waste when the Library of Alexandria was destroyed
Alice Austen portrayed ordinary Victorian-era New Yorkers in photographs that saved her after she became penniless and homeless
Four Denver newsmen started the 1899 hoax declaring that the Great Wall of China was to be dismantled
Ancient Peruvian processing of indigo may have pre-dated Egyptian use of the dye by 1,200 years
Great inventions from ancient times
The Rosetta Stone: A decree carved in three different scripts is helping linguists decipher ancient texts
Site discovered in Northern Iraq may be that of an ancient outpost of the Akkadian Empire
Fossil of a beetle inside a lizard inside a snake – an ancient food chain
