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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...
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They stand in silence facing inward from the ocean, as if they are a line of soldiers, of sentries meant to protect the island from whate...
Retreats usually spell defeat for the great generals of history. Many avoided it at all costs, but the truly brilliant knew when to charge into battle and when ...
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At Utah's Canyonlands National Park, on a remote sandstone wall, limbless anthropomorphic figures look down like sentries on tourists and ar...
“This is truly astonishing. As far as I know there is no known example of the discovery of an individual historically connected with an act of war as far back a...
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In 1901, just off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, the remains of one of the most baffling archaeological finds to date was lifted from a m...
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So we've taken a look at when it was built and who built it, and we've even taken a look at how the ancients used the megalithic structur...
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Last week on History's Nutcases, we met Charles VI. This week, we have yet another insane monarch for you, a monarch named Peter III. He 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.
