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Renowned Roman Philanthropist’s Tomb Discovered in Ancient Sillyon

Renowned Roman Philanthropist’s Tomb Discovered in Ancient Sillyon Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Sillyon in Turkey’s Antalya province have uncovered the remarkable tomb of Menodora, a

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Archaeologists Uncover How Ritual Ceremonies Helped Pave the Way for Chinese Unification

Archaeologists Uncover How Ritual Ceremonies Helped Pave the Way for Chinese Unification Archaeologists have excavated three c. 3,000–2,400-year-old ritual structures in Shandong Province, China, indicating

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The Worlds at the Earth’s Core

The path leading from Edmond Halley’s writings on magnetism to UFOs under Brazil is as convoluted as you might expect. Nonetheless, it was Halley –

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Was Dunsterforce a Disaster? | History Today

On a bleak morning in January 1918 one of the oddest military formations ever put into the field by imperial Britain set out from Khanaqin,

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Ancient Teotihuacan Writing System Cracked By Researchers

Ancient Teotihuacan Writing System Cracked By Researchers Danish linguists have achieved a breakthrough that could finally solve one of archaeology’s greatest mysteries by deciphering the

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The Radical John Wilkes | History Today

On 21 March 1776 the popular politician John Wilkes (1725-97) rose in a packed House of Commons to speak in favour of parliamentary reform. The

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Mexico Vindicates Woman Long Blamed for Aztec Empire's Collapse

Mexico Vindicates Woman Long Blamed for Aztec Empire’s Collapse For five centuries, La Malinche has carried the burden of being labeled a traitor who facilitated

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AD-X2: When US Politicians Took on Science

On the morning of 3 April 1953 employees reporting to the US National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Washington, DC, found a bouquet of two

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Amenhotep III Tomb Reopens After Two Decades of Meticulous Restoration

Amenhotep III Tomb Reopens After Two Decades of Meticulous Restoration Egypt has officially reopened one of the most significant royal tombs in the Valley of

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Noah’s Ark and the Slave Trade

Most of us know the story of Noah, the Flood, and the Ark. In just four chapters of Genesis, the first book of the Bible,