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ANGKOR, CAMBODIA - it's a phenomenon that archaeologists are struggling to explain: huge fields of row upon row of earthen dome-shaped mo...
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MANTEO, NC - Pottery shards that may have belonged to part of a medicine jar from the famous lost colony of Roanoke have been found b...
“I could but esteem this moment of my departure as among the most happy of my life.” - Meriwether Lewis
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Last time, on History's Badasses,...
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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...
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.