“We’re really excited to have evidence of military action here at the south wall. We have got very little evidence overall of construction material, so this is ...
"We need a lot of additional analysis and hard work for interpretation."
- Viktor Novozhenov, archaeologist with the Sayarka Archaeological Institute at Kara...
“What’s exciting for me is: I grew up coming to this beach, and now as an archaeologist working for the Army, helping to manage this site, we discovered these p...
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Human beings have always been fascinated by the sea. The open ocean is a wild, untamed thing. It's in our nature to explore it and try to c...
“ very fresh in our family stories, how by some miracle was able to survive the wars as an orphan boy spending that last winter in a kind of hollowed out sugar...
"We found that Christians and pagans were buried together and we can conclude that, at the time, they lived in harmony and tolerance." - Miomir Korac, chief a...
"I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject."
- William Wallace
Last week, on History's Badasses, we covered Joan of Arc, the you...
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Last week on Battles That Made History, we covered the famous Siege of Yorktown. It was the battle that would bring about the downfall of t...
" is, without exaggeration, a discovery of international significance” - Vladmir Kuznetsov, director of Phanagoria Historical and Archaeological Museum-Preserve...
Historical movies are pretty great. Unfortunately, sometimes film makers don't always do their research like they should. Sometimes, the movies get it wrong. In...
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.
