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  • marika rokk was a soviet spy

    Nazi socialite Marika Rökk was a member of Hitler’s inner circle AND a Sovjet spy

    Marika Rökk was a Soviet spy during World War II...

  • Listen to Hirohito’s surrender speech

    The original recordings of Japanese royal emperor Hirohito’s surrender speech on the 15th of A...

  • Hunter-gatherer men and women were equal

    The hunter-gatherer man: macho or metro?

    British scientist from the University College of London state that men and women in hunter-gatherer ...

  • How the death penalty contributed to a better society

    The death penalty created a better society in Europe...

  • Alexander the Great: has he been found?

    Human remains of a woman, a newborn baby and two men were found earlier at the newly found archaeolo...

  • Tomb discovered of a fifth dynasty Egyptian queen

    Czech archaeologists have discovered the tomb in Egypt of an unknown queen: Chentkaus III...

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Tomb discovered of a fifth dynasty Egyptian queen

Czech archaeologists have discovered the tomb in Egypt of an unknown queen: Chentkaus III. She was probably the wife of a pharaoh who belonged to the fifth dynasty, about 4,500 years ago, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities. “It’s the first time we discover the name of the queen,... Read full history →
04 January 2015 by Jan Huisman in Antiquity, Archaeology, News / No Comments
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Golden jewellery found on a New Kingdom mummy

Archaeologists found a mummy while cleaning a Middle Kingdom (2000 BC – 17000 BC) burial site on Luxor’s west bank. The spanish archaeological mission led by Myriam Seco unearthed the mummy within the ruins of a temple of King Thutmose III. The mummy itself is in a poor state, but... Read full history →
03 December 2014 by Jan Huisman in Antiquity, Archaeology, News / No Comments
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Genetic proof: Remains of Richard III are really his

Richard III's body found af more than 500 years
Genetic evidence proof that the human remain found beneath a parking lot in Leicester last year really belonged to Richard III. According to the genetic analysis, the king had blue eyes and blond hair, characteristics that match contemporary portraits of the 15th century monarch. The skeleton’s genetic material was compared... Read full history →
02 December 2014 by Jan Huisman in Middle Ages, News / No Comments
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Archaeologists unearth an unknown Roman god

Unknown Roman god (photo: Peter Jülich) A Roman sanctuary is found in an ancient temple in the southeast of Turkey with a depiction of a mysterious and unknown Roman god in it. On it, the god rises up from a plant and may be a fusion of Near Eastern and... Read full history →
26 November 2014 by Jan Huisman in Antiquity, Archaeology, News / No Comments
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History’s most unexpected veggies? The bloodthirsty Roman gladiators

Roman gladiators were vegetarians
According to popular belief, meat eaters are more aggressive and energetic than vegetarians . How is it then that some of the most brutal and aggressive warriors from history, Roman gladiators, ate mostly plants and grains? New research of the medical university of Vienna suggests just that. The researchers analyzed by... Read full history →
09 November 2014 by Jan Huisman in Antiquity, News / No Comments
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