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Knights Templar: Still loved by conspiracy theorists

The suppression of the Templars meant that there was nobody to safeguard their legacy...

The biggest Empires in human history (infographic)

The measurement is based on estimated land control

Medieval nun faked her death for a life of sex, archives reveal

The saga was discovered by archivists at the University of York

For most of history, humans got smarter. That’s now reversing

We were gaining three IQ points per decade for many, many years. Now, that's going backward. Could this explain some of our choices lately?

A glimpse into the life of Marco Polo

Important documents bring new light to details of the great explorer's life

“1917” First Reactions: “Tremendous piece of film-making”, “the best war film since ‘Saving Private Ryan'”

Director Sam Mendes' WWI epic has finally screened for audiences & raves abound across the board

“We made you Muslim”: AKP mayor to woman from Trabzon!

The surprised woman asked: “what do you mean by that?” - Trabzon and the wider region was historically home to Greek Orthodox Christians

Forgotten Genocide: How a Quarter of Europe’s Roma were murdered by the Nazis, then erased from History

Documents that have surfaced in an exhibition in London show how the world turned its back on half a million Roma victims of Hitler’s Holocaust

Meet the man responsible for today’s Middle East mayhem

How it all began

Inside the grisly phenomenon of coffin births!

“April ye 20, 1650, was buried Emme, the wife of Thomas Toplace, who was found delivered of a child after she had lain two hours in the grave”

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