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ENNENDI PLATEAU, CHAD - a UNESCO World Heritage Site deep in the Sahara desert has been all but destroyed by graffiti. Cha...
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Last time, on History's Badasses, we talked about the woman who founded the Red Cross: Clara Barton. This week, we're turning our...
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ZHENGZHOU, HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA - Archaeologists working just west of the Yellow River discovered a mysterious find: a tomb that e...
“Last Tuesday they called me to announce the big discovery of a colossus of a king, most probably Ramses II, made out of quartzite," - Egyptian antiquties minis...
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We hear about it all the time. It was a pivotal point in European history, paving the way for centuries of history afterward, but ...
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In a quest to understand global climate change and how the human race plays a part in it, researchers and archaeologists are loo...
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OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND - In a twist of events, an antiques expert visiting Blenheim Palace realized that one of the building's flower pots ...
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UST-POLUI, SIBERIA - Archaeologists investigating Siberia's ancient "bear cult" at an ancient ceremonial site within the Arctic Cir...
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SICILY ITALY - A team of Italian divers have recovered a cache of rare metal that ancient people thought was originally forged in Atlantis.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756. He was considered one of the greatest composers of the classical period, and was admired by c...
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.
