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It may have been over 400 years since she reigned over England, but Queen Elizabeth I is known as one of the…

Mummies are media darlings. Even so, some slip through the cracks and don’t make it big. But these forgotten ancients, or the…

The Ancient Greeks are credited with inventing sports stadiums for their Olympic and Panhellenic athletic contests. The word stadium itself is of…

The generation that fought the Second World War, both overseas and at home, has long mythologized those years as being representative of…

We think of all microbes as more or less the same species with some variations here and there, when in reality, it’s…

The Harry Potter universe captured the imaginations of children and adults around the world, and continues to do so with spin-off material.…

What does the average person know about Babylon? Probably they’ve heard the phrase “whore of Babylon.” They also know of them as…

Roughly 200,000 years ago, Neanderthals came into existence across Eurasia. They were named after the Neander Valley in Germany, where the first…

Cemeteries are spooky places. It doesn’t matter how old they are. There’s just something unsettling about the presence of dead bodies and…

Thanks to human conflict, there is no shortage of forts, bases, and shelters. Those that are abandoned have a certain attraction, a…