Who was the wealthiest ever pirate in recorded history?
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How Morocco saved its Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps
Morocco has been a rare example of a Muslim Arabic-speaking country that protected its Jewish population, with one of its rulers......
How did ancient people clean their teeth?
Most people today adhere to a routine of brushing twice daily, but millennia ago our ancestors faced greater challenges in......
What we can learn from Maya about water management
The Maya civilization (A.D. 250 – 1600s) ingeniously maintained their water supply in good shape for over a millennium,......
Scientists discover two ancient artifacts are actually made of extraterrestrial ...
A recent revelation has stunned the archaeological world with its cosmic implications. Spanish researchers examining Late Bronze......
Why Russia and China fought a brief war half a century ago
After centuries of peaceful frictions over border and territories, in 1969, China and Russia engaged in a two-week armed conflict......
Scientists unlock the mystery of Vittrup Man’s death
Since being first discovered in 1915 near the Danish village of Vittrup, the remains of a man who was brutally murdered around......
Prehistoric arrow flints challenge timeline of first Neanderthal - Homo sapiens ...
For about 300,000 years, Neanderthals dominated European territories until their extinction about 40,000 years ago. Modern......
Why was Laconia ruled by two kings at a time?
One of the mightiest military powers about 2,700 years ago was the state of Laconia, or Lacadaemon, which is better known as......
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[animation] Ancient Greeks were first to build a railway
Corinth was a powerful city-state in the Ancient Greek world and controlled both maritime and land traffic between the northern......
Polynesians sailed to South America long before European colonists
The ancestors of Polynesians are believed to take their roots from northern Philippines, Taiwan and possibly southeastern China......
Researchers learned why Earth’s largest ape went extinct more than 200,000 years ...
Gigantopithecus blacki are known to be the largest ever apes who lived on our planet. They died out between 295,000 and 215,000......
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