“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...
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In a statement released Sunday, the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum revealed that archaeologists have uncovered a pendant in a...
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We use a thousand common phrases and gestures every single day without thinking twice about them. Saying "hello" or "hi" when we greet s...
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The Roman Emperor Nero left behind a great many architectural wonders. He might have been an infamous, ridiculously cruel tyrant, but...
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XIANGKHOANG PLATEAU, LAOS - in the upland valleys and lower foothills of the Xiangkhoang Plateau, there lies a fascinating landscape ...
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Last time on History's Nutcases, we talked about a man named Jemmy Hirst, who fancied riding a bull he'd trained to jump fences like a horse, ...
"This obviously reinforces the sacrality of the site." - Archaeologist Giuseppe La Spina.
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SICILY, ITALY - Italian Archaeologists wor...
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.
