Articles written by Jacinto Antón

A tigress and her cub in a natural park in India.

In his book ‘The trails of a tiger’ expeditionist José Luis Rivera chronicles his experiences with the felines and discusses what can be done to protect them

Loretta Young and Henry Wilcoxon in 'The Crusades' by Cecil B. DeMille.

MEDIEVAL HISTORY

No oral sex in the Middle Ages

Jacinto Antón|15 Nov 2022 - 22:30UTC

A gripping book by British historian Katherine Harvey documents what went on between the sheets in the Middle Ages

Soviet Army officers observe the bodies of women who committed suicide in a Vienna park at the end of World War II.

NAZISM

The mass suicides by ordinary citizens in the last days of Nazi Germany

Jacinto Antón|Barcelona|31 Oct 2022 - 17:01UTC

Historian Florian Huber’s book examines how civilians took their own lives in greater numbers than military and government officials as the Third Reich collapsed

Fresco known as Il Tuffatore preserved in the archaeological museum of the city of Paestum, near Salerno.

CULTURE

Has the mystery behind the fresco in the Tomb of the Diver been solved?

Jacinto Antón|Barcelona|19 Oct 2022 - 02:02UTC

A German archaeologist has written a beautiful and illuminating book about the ancient site, located in Paestum, Italy, known for the mysterious frescoes adorning its walls

SS Major Otto Kraus, left, and his brother Hans.

NAZI GERMANY

The horror of discovering that your grandfather was an SS officer who personally murdered Jews during the Holocaust

Jacinto Antón|Berlin|27 Sep 2022 - 02:36UTC

In his novel ‘The Bastard Factory,’ Chris Kraus wrestles with the memory of his relative, who belonged to a roving Nazi killing squad

Howard Carter and an Egyptian worker remove a fragment of the deathbed from Tutankhamun’s tomb in February, 1923.

ANCIENT EGYPT

Excavating the archives of the man who uncovered Tutankhamun’s tomb

Jacinto Antón|Oxford|13 Aug 2022 - 15:51UTC

Marking the centenary of the greatest archaeological find in history, other “wonderful things” in the shape of documents, drawings and photographs are on display in Oxford’s Bodleian Library

Oliver Stone in Barcelona where he presented 'JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass' at the BCN Film Fest

CINEMA

Oliver Stone: ‘The Putin I knew was rational, calm, always acting in the best interest of the Russian people’

Jacinto Antón|´Barcelona|26 Apr 2022 - 16:08UTC

The director of ‘JFK’ defended the Russian leader at the presentation of a new documentary on the Kennedy assassination at the BCN Film Fest in Barcelona

The stern of the 'Endurance,' at the bottom of the sea in the Antarctic.

Oceanographic expeditions‎

Shackleton’s legendary ‘Endurance’: One of polar exploration’s most famous vessels located in Antarctica

Jacinto Antón|Barcelona|10 Mar 2022 - 15:49UTC

The ship went down in the Weddell Sea in 1915 after being trapped in pack ice for nine months, leading to a celebrated escape to safety over land and sea

An employee at the British Museum poses next to the Nebra sky disc at the new Stonehenge exhibition.

EXHIBITIONS

The British Museum’s Stonehenge exhibition: An accessible, comprehensive guide (albeit with no druids…)

Jacinto Antón|London|18 Feb 2022 - 11:36UTC

Treasures such as the Nebra sky disc and Seahenge are there to be discovered at the show, which cleverly links the prehistoric site to our present times

Charlton Heston in a scene from the epic movie 'El Cid.'

HISTORY

The real story of Spain’s El Cid: medieval hero or shrewd mercenary?

Jacinto Antón|Barcelona|03 Jan 2020 - 08:10UTC

Many of the episodes that people know from books and movies never really happened, says scholar David Porrinas. But Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar’s life and exploits were still extraordinary

Adolf Hitler in occupied Paris in June 1940.

OPINION

Is Paris burning?

Jacinto Antón|16 Apr 2019 - 15:40UTC

Hitler would dance for joy at the sight of Notre-Dame going up in flames so many years later

Djehuty Project workers in an underground tomb.

Archaeology

Spain’s crowdfunding treasure hunters

Jacinto Antón / El País|Barcelona|24 Oct 2017 - 07:33UTC

Spanish-led Djehuty project successfully launches campaign to finance next excavation season in Egypt

The painted coffin found near the temple of Thutmose III in Luxor.

ARCHEOLOGY

Spanish-led mission finds mummy near Egyptian pharaoh’s temple

Jacinto Antón|Barcelona|16 Nov 2016 - 08:08UTC

Myriam Seco’s team uncovers coffin of high-ranking official at Thutmosis III sanctuary in Luxor

A Mass held in Montjuïc Castle’s Santa Elena Moat shortly after the Civil War.

HISTORICAL MEMORY

Barcelona bans Montjuïc Castle Mass held for executed Franco supporters

Jacinto Antón|Barcelona|16 Jul 2015 - 10:28UTC

City offers different date and venue for tribute held almost uninterruptedly since 1940

José Falcó aboard his Chato biplane during the Spanish Civil War.

OBITUARY

Spanish Civil War flying ace who “attacked like a rabid dog” dies aged 97

Jacinto Antón|Madrid|14 May 2014 - 09:36UTC

José Falcó reportedly took down two elite Nazi fighters in one mission in his Soviet biplane For years the Republican pilot took flowers to the grave of one of the Germans he killed

On the road again: Sebastian Junger’s The Last Patrol.

The long march home

Jacinto Antón|Barcelona|16 Jan 2014 - 16:52UTC

‘Perfect Storm’ author Sebastian Junger’s new film and book charts the walk across the US he undertook with two war veterans and a Spanish photographer