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Yes, you may be reading the wrong horoscope & No, it isn’t NASA’s fault your zodiac sign changed

The Earth's axis has shifted since the Babylonians codified the horoscope dates some 3.000 years ago

Underfloor central heating from 2700 B.C. in Minoan Crete

Ancient technology

Oldest gynecological treatment on record performed in ancient Egypt 4.000 years ago

"Until now, there had been no evidence found to prove that such treatment was actually carried out”

The messy business of scrubbing 2,000 years of bird poop from an Egyptian temple

The crap covered up cartouches and constellations

Brazen Bull: Gruesome Ancient Greek Torture Device Turned Screams into “Music”

As its name suggests, the Brazen Bull was a bronze object in the shape of a bull

Is this tiny island really the lost home of the Aztecs?

Aztlán, the mythical homeland of the Aztec people, from where they departed before founding a second capital in a lake

How Poetry won Independence for Greece – WSJ

Two hundred years ago, the Greek revolution against Ottoman rule became a European cause thanks to the support of writers and artists

Sir Paul McCartney looks back “like a fan” on first time he met John Lennon

McCartney recounted the day on 6 July, 1957, when he was introduced to Lennon, then aged 16, in Liverpool

How the Chinese viewed the Byzantines: A fascinating audio extract from a primary Chinese source (video)

It is uploaded on the Youtube channel Voices of the Past

17 out-of-place artifacts said to suggest high-tech prehistoric civilizations existed

Mounting evidence suggest that prehistoric civilizations possessed advanced technological knowledge that was lost throughout the ages

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