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NANGGU, SOLOMON ISLANDS - Archaeologists from Australia and New Zealand working on a Pacific site have discovered obsidian tools used for...
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A tablet made around 3100 to 3000 BC is the world's oldest paycheck. It's over 5,000 years old, and originated in the ancient Me...
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Last week on History's Badasses, we talked about Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history, who rack...
History is forged in the fires of war and creativity. Throughout humanity's timeline, there have been a select view inventions that have absolutely altered the ...
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Last time on Unsolved Archaeology, we introduced the Moai of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, and talked about the history of Rapa Nui, and ...
No period of time has ever been better documented or was more influential in human history than the 20th century. Technology, war, population growth and freedom...
"The name Elagabalus is branded in history above all others unspeakably disgusting life." - Barthold Georg Niebuhr
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Last week, we covered...
"You don't just have these silent but deadly bullets flying over; you've got a sound effect coming off them that would keep the defenders' heads down, Every arm...
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...
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At the 2,400 Years World Congress, which marks 2,400 years since Aristotle's birth, archaeologist Konstantinos Sismanidis presented a p...