A medicinal jar and bowl were also found in the latrine. While we don't normally think of someone's bathroom habits as valuable insight into their life, archae...
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AKTAU, KAZAKHSTAN - In 2010, a man named F. Akhmadulin was wandering along the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea with a metal detector...
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AARGAU, SWITZERLAND - Archaeologists have unearthed a strange find: an earthenware pot filled with bronze coins and oil lamps, each conta...
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According to Danish archaeologist Rolf Warming, our preconceived notions about how Vikings really behaved in combat have been complete...
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We know a lot about Vikings thanks to the number of elaborate burials and historical texts that we've uncovered, but over the years, a ...
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.” - Bruce Lee
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The sea has always been a mysterious and terrifying place for the human race. There's just something about the featureless expanse of gray ...
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TURPAN BASIN, CHINA - Archaeologists are calling it an "extraordinary cache". They've found the body of an ancient man wrapped in...
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We all learn about England's most beloved playwright, William Shakespeare in school, but when people think of Shakespeare's theater, they usu...
"All the evidence from different disciplines has come together … the genomics has clinched it." - Peter Bellwood, archaeologist, Australian National University ...
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.
