Events Tagged: "mystery"

11 events with tag "mystery"

3000 BC ID: 2617
Stonehenge construction begins - Neolithic Britons begin building mysterious stone circle on Salisbury Plain
ID: 2617
Stonehenge
1336 BC ID: 3655
Nefertiti disappears - either dies or falls from power, succession crisis begins
ID: 3655
Akhetaten
1323 BC ID: 3658
Death of Tutankhamun at 19 - buried with unprecedented treasures, possible murder, end of Amarna line
ID: 3658
Thebes
520 BC ID: 5950
Pythagorean mysteries established - mathematical mysticism, music of spheres, reincarnation, bizarre taboos (never eat beans!), secret society
ID: 5950
Corinth
67 BC ID: 5954
Pompey encounters Mithraism - Cilician pirates practice mysteries of Mithras, Roman soldiers adopt cult, spreads through legions
ID: 5954
Rome
8 ID: 2732
Ovid exiled to Tomis - great poet banished to Black Sea for 'poem and error,' dies in exile, mystery never solved
ID: 2732
Tomis
453 ID: 4734
Death of Attila - dies on wedding night (nosebleed or murder?), Hun Empire immediately collapses
ID: 4734
Pannonia
1100 ID: 2595
August 2, 1100
Death of William Rufus in New Forest - shot by arrow while hunting, Walter Tirel flees, Henry seizes treasury
ID: 2595
New Forest
1400 ID: 2464
February 14, 1400
Death of Richard II at Pontefract Castle - starved or murdered, Henry IV displays body to prove death
ID: 2464
Pontefract Castle
1541 ID: 5478
September 24, 1541
Paracelsus dies in Salzburg at age 47 under mysterious circumstances; some suspect poisoning by enemies
ID: 5478
Salzburg
1999 ID: 3038
Edmond Safra died under mysterious circumstances in Monaco; Boris Berezovsky ensnared in BONY probes
ID: 3038