"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...
“It is very important that the story of the native population is put back into the narrative of Medieval Ireland,” - Kate Leonard, supervising archaeologist.
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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.