"When we dug out the skull we were scared to death and even called the local police station. A bit later we realised that we should have called the local museum...
People are idiots. If you've studied history, you know this quite well by now. Now, there's crazy stupid, prideful stupid, and stupid stupid, and you'll find th...
"We will accept nothing less than full victory." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
PHOTO: Boston.com
It was the one of the largest amphibious military assaults in his...
Charles VI sets his dinner guests on fire. PHOTO: listverse.com
Last time, on History's Nutcases, we covered the most notorious female serial killer of all ...
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Last time in Unexplained History, we covered Stonehenge. Specifically, we covered all the theories on who built it and how long ago it wa...
PHOTO: TreasureNet
CAIRO, EGYPT - Researchers from Milan Polytechnic, Pisa University, and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo itself discovered that King Tut's da...
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In the largest find of Roman archaeology in Great Britain ever, archaeologists have discovered more than 400 documents from the 1st centur...
Diagrams from the Epic of Ramayana. PHOTO: mintonsunday.livemint.com
Space ships, droids, clones, end-of-days, zombies and nuclear apocalypses and the meani...
PHOTO: Time Magazine
Construction workers were working on a new building in this year's spring warmth at the Boston waterfront, in the seaport area of the c...
'With you it rests, Callimachus, either to bring Athens to slavery, or, by securing her freedom, to be remembered by all future generations. For never since the...
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.
