Nearly every city is built over an ancient site. The older the city, the greater the past that lies beneath. Sometimes, archaeologists…
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History
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People always look to the past as a golden age. People were moral, the young were respectful, and sex was not everywhere.…
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Life for the Inuit, the natives of Canada’s Arctic, has never been easy. They have built up their lives in a frozen…
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Ever since the country first appeared in ancient Chinese chronicles, few places can boast as colorful and interesting a story as Japan’s.…
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It’s terrifying to think that there are still people out there in the world who refuse to believe that the Holocaust was…
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John F. Kennedy’s father was a major figure in his own right. He was a financial genius and a political power player.…
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The emperors of the ancient world held an incredible amount of power. Those who ruled over the kingdoms of ancient China were…
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The word “sarcophagus” derives from the Greek word for “flesh-eater.” These stone burial boxes were employed for millennia in ancient Egypt, the…
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Under the heavy influence of the Church, sexual acts during the Middle Ages were policed to an extreme. Despite this state of…
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When rock art is a little strange, things get interesting. Ranging from the controversial to the paranormal, some aren’t what they appear…