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A blistering day in South Carolina, May 1st, 1865 in Charleston. The South had been devastated by the Civil War, a war that had claimed m...
The Bear River Massacre Site. PHOTO: westerndigs.org
The narrative of Native American history in the United States is patchy at best. Many events have been ...
PHOTO: Csejte Castle, szeretlekcsomor.com
Last time on History's Nutcases, we covered the infamous Vlad the Impaler. This week, we're not moving very far fr...
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Pretty much everyone has heard of the "Black Death": the plague that wiped out almost 200 million people in Europe during ...
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Last time in Unsolved Archaeology we covered the Nazca Lines. This time, we're covering arguably one of the most enigmatic and mysterious o...
"This is them telling their stories to us. This is part of our history." - Susan Crooke, Group Coordinator of Petroglyph Patrol
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The sun shivers through the arid air in the southern Jewish desert. The sky is blue as sapphires, the ground brown and red like brick...
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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...
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.
