"You don't just have these silent but deadly bullets flying over; you've got a sound effect coming off them that would keep the defenders' heads down, Every arm...
We usually don't tend to think of cities before the industrial revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries as any more than narrow streets, buildings stacked up o...
“These archaeological sites, these artifacts are the footprints of our people. We do not see these sites as ‘ruins’ or as being abandoned. The spirits of our an...
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At the 2,400 Years World Congress, which marks 2,400 years since Aristotle's birth, archaeologist Konstantinos Sismanidis presented a p...
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ANGKOR, CAMBODIA - it's a phenomenon that archaeologists are struggling to explain: huge fields of row upon row of earthen dome-shaped mo...
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MANTEO, NC - Pottery shards that may have belonged to part of a medicine jar from the famous lost colony of Roanoke have been found b...
“I could but esteem this moment of my departure as among the most happy of my life.” - Meriwether Lewis
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Last time, on History's Badasses,...
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ALSACE, FRANCE - Archaeologists seem to have unearthed the remains of a neolithic massacre going back 6,000 years.
A group of researc...
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, exploring was the thing to do. Europe was just now discovering that there were lands beyond their small stretch of...
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GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA - Archaeologists have discovered a rare 400-year-old Native American homestead site that belonged to a tribe w...
Elizabeth Lundin is a Portland-based freelance writer and blogger who enjoys writing about history almost as much as she enjoys reading it: which is quite a lot.
