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4,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Tree Trunk Coffin to Make Museum Debut

Getting your audio player ready... A massive 4,000-year-old Bronze Age coffin, carved from a single oak tree and discovered by…

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Gems That Represented Ancient Symbols of Wealth and Power

Getting your audio player ready... Throughout history, precious gemstones have gone beyond decoration, serving as powerful symbols of wealth, authority,…

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Scholars Say Many Beliefs About Vikings Are Based On Medieval Fiction

Getting your audio player ready... Scandinavian studies scholars at the University of Münster have delivered a sobering message to enthusiasts…

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Roman Occupation Exposed Britons to Disease and Class Divides

Getting your audio player ready... The Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD brought with it dramatic social upheaval that…

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Renaissance Gallows Unearthed in France With 32 Executed Victims

Getting your audio player ready... Archaeologists working in Grenoble, France, have made a chilling discovery that sheds light on the brutal…

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Ancient Astronomical Alignments: Reading and Mapping the Stars at Early Advanced Civilization Sites

Getting your audio player ready... Many of the cuneiform tablets of Mesopotamia and hieroglyphs of Egypt make reference to the…

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‘Demosthenes’ by James Romm review

‘Demo-cracy’: power/might of the demos. ‘Demo-sthenes’: strength to/for/with the demos. Demosthenes’ father may have been unimaginative – he had himself…

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Indonesia’s Heroic History | History Today

When Indonesia’s former president Suharto died aged 86 in 2008, the nation began a week of mourning and conflicted reflection.…

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Did Sauropods Walk or Waddle?

Four feet long and made of plaster, a lifelike model of Diplodocus carnegii lurks atop one of the cabinets in…

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Kent Philpott and the Origins of Conversion Therapy

In the summer of 1967 thousands of young people descended on San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district in search of sex, drugs,…

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