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The failure of the Spartan system at Pylos

The portrayal of the Spartan's prowess in battle belies the precarious political and social structure that supported them

Immurement: A history of walled in terror & cruelty

The history behind one of the cruelest forms of capital punishment from ancient times to some shockingly recent accounts

The Epic of Gilgamesh: History’s oldest great work of literature

Long before...the Game of Thrones!

New provocation: Skopje advertise the 2000-year-old Macedonian wines as part of their heritage!

One more conscious violation of the Prespes Agreement

Barbary Pirates & White Slavery

Between 1530 and 1780, it is estimated that 1.520.000 Europeans alone had been enslaved!

Ritual cave “untouched” for 1000 years discovered in Mexico (photos)

Exploration of Balamku (Cave of the Jaguar God) reveals ancient religious practices and it may hold clues to the rise and fall of the Maya empire

Tsar Bomba: The most powerful atomic bomb ever created (photos)

No one was able to accurately predict the potentially frightening effects of the explosion...

Hitler’s lost U-boat flotilla found in Black Sea (video)

The location of the submarines was discovered with the help of archival documents in 2008

The first city in recorded history (photos)

Uruk is the biblical city of Erech, the second city of the kingdom of Nimrod in Shinar (Genesis 10:10)

Crusader-era hand grenade found in Israel

It was filled with naphtha, a flammable sticky liquid known as Greek fire, then sealed and thrown at enemies

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