We usually don't tend to think of cities before the industrial revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries as any more than narrow streets, buildings stacked up o...
“I could but esteem this moment of my departure as among the most happy of my life.” - Meriwether Lewis
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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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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...
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So we've taken a look at when it was built and who built it, and we've even taken a look at how the ancients used the megalithic structur...
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ATHENS, GREECE - Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the first Oracle ever built to the Greek god Apollo.
When we th...
"When we dug out the skull we were scared to death and even called the local police station. A bit later we realised that we should have called the local museum...
