Such canals would be deepened, and sluices and outer bunds would be built. A report on the work required had been prepared, according to a communication from the district administration.

South Island beaches were largely overlooked during the gold-rush years, which saw European migrants flock to the region in the hope of newfound wealth. New Zealand's indigenous Māori population ...

KOCHI: As several of its divisions continue to reel under tidal flooding, Kochi Corporation has decided to build sluices to control the flow of water in Edakochi. The corporation has prepared an ...

A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories of ...

And these roots – where we can identify them from the sparse medieval and Early Modern sources – express Christian beliefs and practices. The medieval roots of ‘Mothering Sunday’ There is no simple ...

More than 4,000 spectators, including many in Middle Ages garb, stepped into the faux-medieval world of Kryal Castle in Ballarat to watch jousting's answer to the cricket's Ashes rivalry.

Moreover, water is being diverted to agricultural fields by arranging unauthorized sluices to the SRSP canal. As a result, the tailend lands are unable to get water. Speaking to Telangana Today, a ...

Health and disease in the medieval world – and how our ancestors sought to cure everything from infertility to constipation – are the focus of a major new exhibition opening on 29 March 2025 at ...

At least until an archivist took another look, setting off a yearslong project to identify and then reassemble the medieval manuscript, which someone in Tudor England had taken apart and used to ...

‘They understand scale, and aren’t trying to make their material do something that it doesn’t want to.’ The exhibition is staged at The Ragged School in London, and its grounding in the medieval and ...

Historians describe the conflict as being "massively underrated" yet "the biggest medieval battle in England". So, what exactly happened, who were the main players, and did it change the course of ...

The medieval knights of the Middle Ages were some of the fittest and strongest warriors of their time, which comes as no surprise given that they wielded swords and sprinted in armour weighing ...