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Humans have been making music for at least 43,000 years. Archaeologists have found bone flutes dating back that far, and its probable...
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UPPER GALILEE, ISRAEL - Archaeologists discovered that the German Crusaders living in Montfort Castle on a hill in Galilee weren't there ...
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Yesterday, three million women around the world joined with the Women's March on Washington to declare that "Women's rights are hu...
When the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) investigated the site of a proposed new train station in London, they weren't exactly expecting to find a stash of ...
"This is an important discovery, because we finally have proof that representatives of the Linear Pottery culture, who inhabited huge areas in Europe - from Par...
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The narrative of history we find in most textbooks says very little about the regular person. It's all about kings and gene...
“It’s just a theory, an idea, but somebody has to say it first." - Bjarne Henning Nielsen.
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Bjarne Henning Nielsen, a Danish arch...
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ALBERTA, CANADA - Last year, archaeologists with the Royal Alberta Museum dug up a 1,600-year-old roasting pit in southern Alberta, Ca...
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Last week on Battles That Made History, we talked about the famous Battle of Tours. Tours took place in AD 732, and was the battle that s...
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Last time, on History's Badasses, we covered the life of Spartacus, the Thracian slave who led a revolt against the Roman Empir...
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.
