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“This long awaited excavation is now starting give up the secrets of this historic site." - Heather Knight, Directing Archaeologist.
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At the tip of Norway, overlooking the sea, there stand three sentinels that overlook an ancient, rocky fjord: three bronzeswords towering over...
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Archaeology is the business of discovering how people lived in ancient times. It's not unusual to find Native American ceremonial sites dott...
“The English are, as far as I know, the hardest worked people on whom the sun shines. Be content if in their wretched intervals of leisure they read for amuseme...
“What we saw before us, as well as his modest prose about his ‘cabin-castle’ — we bought it...We bought it for over a century.” - Bon-Harper, executive director...
Thus far on History's nutcases, we've had a good mix of the harmless, like King George III, and the utterly diabolical, like last week's Nero. This week, we're ...
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Before there was Assassin's Creed and the elusive ninja, the Sicarii stalked the shadows of the ancient world, knives in hand. Whil...
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Arguably one of the most important discoveries in Egyptology is still surprising and perplexing archaeologists to this day, accor...
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Last time on History's Badasses, we covered the man who abolished the slave trade in the British Empire: William Wilberforce. This week, we...
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It was a mystery for the ages, one that drew in the entirety of Britain's police force and the likes of Dorothy Sayers and Sir...
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.
