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Wool Aliens of the British Empire

In the early 1910s a young woman set out every day to walk the river banks near Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. Ida Hayward was

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65,000-year-old Neanderthal Glue Factory Discovered in Gibraltar

A recent discovery in Gibraltar has unveiled one of the most advanced manufacturing sites of the ancient world: a Neanderthal tar distillation oven dating back

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James VI and I: Spinning the English Succession

In December 1593 Robert Persons, a leader of the English Jesuits on the Continent, was putting the finishing touches to a book he had been

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Church Built by Roman Emperor Justinian I Excavated in Aquileia, Italy

In the quiet and peaceful village of Aquileia, in northern Italy near the Adriatic Sea coast, archaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian

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Dedicated Roman Gladiator Superfans Were the Football Hooligans of Their Day

 John Pearce/The Conversation In the amphitheatre of Gladiator II, Ridley Scott trains his lens on fighters and emperors – but no account of ancient gladiators

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The Gruesome Goat’s Tongue: Greatest Torture of All Time?

History is full of inventive, albeit disturbing, methods of making people squirm, confess, or simply regret their life choices. Among these is the lesser-known but

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Oldest Statement of Christian Faith (Jesus is God) Found In Israeli Prison

“Jesus is God.” An inscription declaring this to be a reality, the earliest and oldest written expression of the Christian faith, has been deemed ‘the

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Earliest Fishing Operation Found in Central America, Dating to 2,000 BC

Even before the rise of the great Maya civilization, the people who occupied Central America’s Yucatan Peninsula were applying their engineering skills to make the

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Murder in the Family: The Ptolemies

For 275 years, the Ptolemies ruled as Egypt’s last, enduring dynasty. Each king carried the name Ptolemy, and each queen carried the name Cleopatra, Berenice,

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The Ancient Hangover Cure Found in a 1,000-Year-Old Cookbook

Written nearly a thousand years ago, the Kitab al-tabikh (book of cookery) written by Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq, is the most comprehensive work of its kind.