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Ancient History
St Nick had a history of teleporting long before needing to reach all the world's children in one night.
The spikes in their mouths would have helped them catch squid or fish.
All roads may not lead to Rome, but many of them lead to wealth and prosperity — even 1,500 years after the fall of the Roman Empire.
You don't have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.
As interest rates rise, the "dead pledge" may live up to its name.
The Knights Templar were not only skilled fighters, but also clever bankers who played a crucial role in the development of Europe’s financial systems.
Marcus Tullius Cicero is widely regarded as one of the most gifted orators in human history. His writings can teach us a lot about the lost art of public speaking.
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
With almost every shovel of sand shifted in Egypt, another artifact comes to light.
“Block. It puts some writers down for months. It puts some writers down for life.”
Who's for dinner?
Like his "Mona Lisa," Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine" depicts a woman in a way that flouted the conventions of its time.
Instead of worshipping Yahweh, the devotees were perhaps dedicated to Mars and Jupiter.
After 10,000 years of civilization, have we figured out what virtue is?
More than 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican societies conducted one of history's most interesting experiments in commodity money.
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Venerated astrophysicist Carl Sagan entertained the possibility.
There were many other species of human on the planet. Svante Pääbo discovered one of them.
How drugs, demons, and the search for immortality gave us words we use everyday.
"Spanish Stonehenge" contains 526 giant stones, three circular burial sites, a quarry, and four necropolises.
Advances in ancient DNA analysis gave researchers a new way to trace the movements of peoples across Eurasia.
There are nearly 100 towns named "Troy."
The “first-of-its-kind” archeological find is being reburied despite the fact that researchers haven’t finished studying it.
Sex can be a death trap even for modern toad and frog species.
Fire-breathing dragons may represent chaos and the human impulse to conquer that threat.
Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble.
The Greeks were among the first to move beyond “primitive money” and establish an official currency, transforming their trade, government, and even philosophy.
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Looking at ourselves in a mirror — or on a video call — shapes our sense of self. But what you see is not what others see.