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June 2025 Artwork
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Bull-Leaping is part of a series of surviving frescoes found in the Palace at Knossos on the island of Crete. Painted on stucco relief around 1450 BC, these frescoes depict the Minoan ritual of bull-leaping—a ceremonial act of acrobatically jumping and tumbling over a charging bull.
Homage
Elephant Leaping depicts the Punic Wars, carrying on the long tradition of Romans borrowing from the Greeks. Hannibal directs his war elephant, with Quintus Fabius leaping away while Scipio Africanus moves to engage. Extra History’s four-episode series on the Punic Wars—our inaugural episodes—originally premiered in September of 2013. Art by David Hueso.
June 2025 Videos
June 2nd
Gordon Riots kill hundreds in London, 1780
June 6th
Normandy D-Day, 1944
June 11th
Kamehameha Day (Hawaii)
June 13th
Ibn Battuta begins his travels, 1325 (approximate)
June 17th
Vlad's night attack at Târgoviște, 1462
June 20th
"Autopsy of a wolf claimed to be the Beast of Gévaudan, 1767.”
June 24th
Meeting at Field of the Cloth of Gold Ends, 1520
June 28th
Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated, 1914