In 146 BC, the city of Corinth burned. Lucius Mummius Achaicus, statesman of the Roman…
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ArchaeologyHistoryScience & Nature
An Uncomfortable Thought: Are We Living in a Dark Age?
by Joseph Greenby Joseph GreenIt was the Italian scholar Petrarch who first coined the term “Dark Age” in the…
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The key moment in Christianity is Jesus’s death on the cross. From this sacrifice the…
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The Antikythera Mechanism, a marvel of ancient ingenuity, challenges our understanding of history and technology.…
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Have you heard the story of the angry deity and the flood? The one where…
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Orichalcum was clearly something valuable. It appears in Plato’s dialogues as a prized substance second…
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History
(In Pics) Five Inventions that are Waaay Older than you Think
by Joseph Greenby Joseph GreenAs a species, it would seem that we feel pretty good about ourselves. But surrounded…
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Many notable papyri from Ancient Egypt provide a look into what life was like back…
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What is “aether”? Well, that is simple: aether (also spelled as ether, aither, or æther)…
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A common medical symbol found everywhere is a staff with two snakes winding up the…
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As young children most of us are taught two vital lessons. The first is don’t…
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The famous quote “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” is often used to…
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Everybody’s heard of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world. As a collection of our…
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Once upon a time, in ancient Greece, a man known for his sharp wit and…
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ArchaeologyMyths & Legends
Brotherhood of the Koryos: Vicious Bronze Age Band of Fighting Men
by Kurt Readmanby Kurt ReadmanThe Koryos were literally a group of fighters, from out of the earliest proto-history of…