“Last Tuesday they called me to announce the big discovery of a colossus of a king, most probably Ramses II, made out of quartzite," - Egyptian antiquties minis...
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We hear about it all the time. It was a pivotal point in European history, paving the way for centuries of history afterward, but ...
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OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND - In a twist of events, an antiques expert visiting Blenheim Palace realized that one of the building's flower pots ...
Women have played a significant role in American political history. By the time the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, many states had already given women votin...
Margaret Madeline Chase Smith was the first woman to serve on both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate. She served on the former from Main...
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UST-POLUI, SIBERIA - Archaeologists investigating Siberia's ancient "bear cult" at an ancient ceremonial site within the Arctic Cir...
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, more commonly known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll. English writer, mathematician, Anglican deacon, logician, and photographer, Dodg...
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SICILY ITALY - A team of Italian divers have recovered a cache of rare metal that ancient people thought was originally forged in Atlantis.
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Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe is best known for 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin that showed how harsh life for African American slaves was. The novel became infl...
A new study shows that many trees we think of as indigenous to the Amazon Rainforest were planted there by ancient Amazonian farmers. According to botanical an...
