New evidence suggests the Vikings may have cultivated and smoked cannabis
Though it may sound like a ridiculous question at first blush, a recent discovery of cannabis pollen near a Viking settlement in Newfoundland is leading...
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Archaeologist brews ancient beers to keep history alive
Ancient wines and spirits give us a glimpse into the history of the elite, but if you want to know more about the common man...
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Egypt Successfully Restores 2,000-Year-Old Catacombs In Alexandria
It is one of the ancient Egyptian sites you’ve probably never heard of before. The catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa (Mound of Shards) is an ancient...
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Hawass Claims To Know With Certainty The Location Of Cleopatra’s Tomb
Zahi Hawass is an Egyptian archaeologist, an Egyptologist, and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. He is also a man who has worked at archaeological sites in the Nile...
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John Wilkes Booth Co-Conspirators And Their Secret Plot
On April 14th, 1865, the Ford Theater held a performance of Our American Cousin. The play had gained acclaim since its debut on the stage...
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Historians Claim To Have Found The Remains Of Atlantis Near The Coast Of Spain
Are these the remnants of the legendary city of Atlantis? I have written plenty of times in the past about Atlantis, the mythical long-lost city-state...
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Scientists Find Oldest Weapons in America, Rewriting History Books
A team of scientists has discovered what are now considered to be the oldest weapons ever discovered in North America. The researchers came across ancient...
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Here’s The Video Inside Brazil’s National Museum After Massive Fire Destroys 90 percent
The tragic fire is feared to have destroyed as much as ninety percent of the artifacts stored in the museum. According to Bloomberg, as many...
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Archaeologists Unearth A Tomb Dating Back To The Times Of The Minotaur
Researchers have discovered an ancient tomb that has remained untouched for more than 3,500 years in Crete, uncovering the grave of a Minoan man who...
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10 Lost Cities Of The World You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Throughout our planet’s long history, countless civilizations have risen and fallen. They left a mark in history by building incredible cities that challenge our very...
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These Are The 9 Worlds According to Ancient Norse Mythology
In the beginning, there was the only emptiness; there was only darkness… Then, surprisingly and out of nothing, from that primordial void, two strange worlds...
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Behold: Here Are 15 of the Greatest Ancient Cities in Human History
Some scholars argue that around the end of the last ice age, some 12 thousand years ago, our ancestors started building complex ancient cities around...
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Who was Enoch? A Man Who Lived For 365 Years According to the Bible
The lifetimes given for the patriarchs in the Book of Genesis are Adam 930 years, Seth 912, Enos 905, Kenan 910, Mahalalel 895, Jared 962,...
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S02 E02 Ancient Aliens: Gods and Aliens
Zeus… Thor… For thousands of years, the ancients have described gods who came down from the heavens. Always you have someone who is descending from the...
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Was Gilgamesh—The Demigod of Ancient Sumeria, a Descendant of Ancient Astronauts?
Undoubtedly, popular culture does not do him the justice he deserves and his name goes more unnoticed than it should be. Gilgamesh is the father...
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Lost Ancient Languages Have Been Discovered in One of the World’s Oldest Ancient Libraries
According to researchers, lost languages have been rediscovered in one of our planet’s oldest continuously used ancient libraries, located in Egypt. Located deep within Mount...
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Archaeologists Find 15 Temples, And More Than 200 Standing Stones At Göbekli Tepe
Recent archaeological excavations have revealed a set of new temples and standing stones at Göbekli Tepe, an archaeological site in Turkey, considered the oldest temple...
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S02 E01 Ancient Aliens: Mysterious Places
Millions of people around the world believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. What if it were true? Did ancient aliens really...
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Lost Civilizations, Pyramids, And Incredible Cyclopean Ruins of South America
Thanks to a number of different, surprising archeological discoveries, it has become a popular theory that incredible, advanced ancient civilizations may have inhabited South America...
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Imhotep: The First Known Architect, Pyramid Builder, Astronomer and Engineer in Ancient history
Imhotep was an Egyptian scholar who deserves to be considered a historical archetype of a polymath; wise, doctor, astronomer, and the first architect known in...
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One Of The Oldest Cities On Earth Is Home To One Of The Largest Castles In The World
When it comes down to ancient cities and those competing for the title of oldest of the all, Aleppo, located in modern-day Syria certainly makes...
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The First UFO Sighting On The Moon Occurred In 1668, And Its Recorded In NASA’s Archive
Throughout the Middle Ages, visions of strange happenings were nearly always attributed to God or to the supernatural. What people couldn’t explain was immediately elevated...
