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Archaeologists Believe That This Mass Grave Found In Latvia Holds The Brutalized Victims Of A Viking Raid

A 1,200-year-old burial with six sets of remains that was found at Čunkāni-Dreņģeri cemetery may hold the grisly aftermath of ...
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This Painting Was Purchased At An Estate Sale In Michigan For $30. It Just Sold At Auction For $1.3 Million

In 2025, a man purchased Gertrude Abercrombie's 1951 painting "Alderman Merriam's Shells" in Michigan for $30 — and just sold ...
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‘It Would Have Been Very Gruesome’: Researchers Just Proved That Egyptian Rulers Were Buried With Dozens Of Human Sacrifices

Researchers studying remains from the royal cemetery of Umm el-Qaab in Abydos found that the pharaohs were buried alongside ...
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Melting Ice In Southern Norway Just Revealed Dozens Of Prehistoric Arrows Dating As Far Back As 6,000 Years

Archaeologists exploring Kvitingskjølen mountain recently came across dozens of prehistoric arrows dating as far back as ...
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Archaeologists In Egypt Just Found A 1,900-Year-Old Ring Depicting The Lighthouse Of Alexandria

Archaeologists exploring the waters off Egypt's Mediterranean coast discovered a 1,900-year-old ring emblazoned with an image ...
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Inside The Amazonian Guards, The Elite All-Female Unit That Protected Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi

The Amazonian Guard was formed around the 1980s to protect the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, but little is known about the ...
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This Cipher That Napoleon Used Went Unsolved For 217 Years. ChatGPT Just Solved It In Six Hours

Napoleon's cipher to General Auguste de Marmont went unsolved for 217 years — but an AI engineer used ChatGPT to solve it in ...
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A New Species Of Dinosaur With Four Wings Was Just Identified By Paleontologists In China

Norellraptor barsboldi was identified in a perfectly-preserved fossil from the Early Cretaceous that was found at the ...
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This 2,800-Year-Old Palace Discovered In Ethiopia May Have Been One Of The World’s Very First ‘Skyscrapers’

Researchers studying the Grat Be’al Gibri palace in Yeha, Ethiopia have concluded that it may have stood a whopping 19 stories tall some 2,800 years ago.
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Castrati: The Italian Boys Who Were Castrated In Order To Maintain Their High-Pitched Singing Voices

Would you ever consider castrating your son so he could have a singing career? While it might seem unfathomable today, this was a popular option for many Italian parents up until the 19th century.
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The Doomed Journey Of The Endurance Ship And Her Miraculous Discovery Over A Century Later

In 1915, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out on an expedition in the Endurance to become the first team to make a land crossing of Antarctica. Their ship would become stuck in the ice and sink, ...
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Inside The Bewildering Case Of The Yuba County Five And Their Unsolved Disappearance

On Feb. 24, 1978, five men from Yuba City, California — Jackie Huett, Bill Sterling, Jack Madruga, Ted Weiher, and Gary Mathias — made plans to go to a college basketball game in Chico, California.