The Silent Stories Beneath Our Feet
The Age of Discovery Isn’t Over
It’s tempting, in the 21st century, to believe that all the discoveries have been made.
But then someone comes along and looks a few inches under the surface of the ground on which they’re standing, and our understanding of our own human history completely changes.
The discovery of dozens of circles of carefully placed stones, which turned out to mark the burial places of Bronze and Iron Age children, has raised more questions than it’s answered.
What will we learn from these graves, and other new discoveries, in the future?
The Age of Discovery, Part 1
“The Age of Discovery” is one of those phrases that we hear a lot and think we know how to define, even if we don’t.
Today was the day I learned that the Age of Discovery (sometimes known as the Age of Exploration) is considered to be the period of time between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries when countless European countries sent explorers out in ships to “discover” and map new countries and regions.
They were also sent out to colonize such regions and to help their sponsors accrue wealth with “trade in goods, spices, and precious metals.”
