HISTORY

Dongba: The Last Hieroglyph and the Struggle to Save Naxi Culture

The Dongba symbols are an ancient system of pictographic glyphs created by the founder of the Bön religious tradition of…

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Shipwreck off Kenyan Coast May Have Been Vasco da Gama’s São Jorge

A new study links a shipwreck off the Kenyan coast of Ngomeni to be Vasco de Gama’s famed ship, the…

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The Wendish Crusade: Holy War or Political Ambition in the Baltic Frontier?

For centuries, the Polabian Slavs lived in their ancestral homeland around the Elbe River, in what is today Germany. Following…

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Oldest US Firearm Found in Arizona and Tied to Coronado Expedition

A groundbreaking discovery in southern Arizona has unveiled the oldest known firearm in the continental United States. A bronze wall…

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Bronze Age Sword Found in Danish Bog Leads to Hoard

A Bronze Age sword, ritually bent before being deposited as an offering, has been unearthed in Værebro Ådal by a…

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Following Threads to Colonial Barbados

Samplers, pieces of embroidery made to practise or demonstrate needlework stitches, were an important part of girls’ education for centuries.…

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Otto the Great’s Tribute to His Late English Queen Finally Makes Sense

A historical document composed by King Otto I, better known as Otto the Great, to his English queen has been…

1 year ago

Who to Blame for Early Modern Climate Change?

The sky in the northern hemisphere had been darkened, the winters unusually harsh, and the summers barely arriving for decades…

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How the Thanksgiving Food Favorites Won Their Place at the Table

Thanksgiving, celebrated annually in the United States, is a time-honored tradition marked by a feast that brings together family and…

1 year ago

What Counts as a Planet?

When, in 1816, John Keats began reading an Elizabethan translation of Homer, he became so enthralled that he stayed up…

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