10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Ancient Egypt’s Provincial Pyramids
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Ancient Egypt’s history of pyramids is nothing short of magical. Although many experts say that the pyramids of Egypt are…
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10 Things You Should Know About The Underground City of Derinkuyu
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The underground city of Derinkuyu is the oldest underground city in the Median Empire, and the largest city found in…
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Ra, The Egyptian God of the Sky
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The god Ra was the sun deity in ancient Egypt. The sun symbolized light, warmth, and growth to the ancient…
10 Things You Should Know About the Submerged Yonaguni Monument
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At a depth of 25 meters off the coast of the western Japanese island of Yonaguni are mysterious underwater pyramids…
10 Things You Should Know About Chiribiquete: the Sistine Chapel of Amazonian Rock Art
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One of the most impressive National Parks on Earth is Chiribiquete, dubbed the Amazonian Sistine Chapel thanks to its 70,000…
10 Things You Should Know About Ancient Egypt’s First True Capital, the Lost City of Thinis
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There are many ancient cities that have been lost to the “sands of time,” and Egypt’s first true capital, the…
10 Things You Should Know About Phosphine in Venus’ Atmosphere
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Earth is the only place in the entire universe where life exists. That is according to our best knowledge of…
10 Interesting Quotes by Nikola Tesla And The Message he Conveyed in Them
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Is there a scientist with a greater impact on our modern world than Nikola Tesla? The inventor who gave electricity…
15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Antares, One of the Brightest Stars in the Night Sky
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Antares, a striking feature in our night sky, has been an integral part of human history, astrology, and astronomy for…
10 Things you probably didn’t know about the Green Children of Woolpit
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Have you heard of one of the most mysterious legends in English medieval history – that of the green children…
20 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Blind Mystic Baba Vanga
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The allure of the mystical and the enigmatic often captivates our imagination, especially when it comes to individuals said to…
5 Things We Think Are Unique to “Modern Society” But Already Existed in Ancient Rome
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When we think about ancient civilizations and cultures, many of us wrongly believe that these ancient societies were far from…
15 Things You Should Know About Voyager 1, Mankind’s First Interstellar Spaceship
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There a spacecraft so far away in space it has become the first humanmade object to reach interstellar space. It…
10 Things You Likely Didn’t Know About Serapeum of Saqqara and Its Sacred Api Bulls
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The Serapeum of Saqqara has remained a mystery since its re-discovery in 1850. It is the cemetery of the personified…
10 Curiosities You Probably Didn’t Know About Peru’s 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Lines
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Despite over 80 years of study of the Nazca Lines, the geoglyphs have remained a mystery to researchers who have…
10 Things You Should Know About Imhotep, The First Pyramid Architect
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Imhotep was a mythological figure in the Egyptian civilization but his genealogy remained unclear. He was known as a powerful…
10 Great Ancient Egyptian Discoveries That Changed History
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The evolution of the Egyptian civilization bore evidence to the culture of different nations. First, it was seized by the…
10 Things You Should Know About Caesarion, Egypt’s Last Pharaoh
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Caesarion is not a name you normally hear during a conversation about ancient Egyptian history. Shaded by the fame of…
10 Things You Should Know About the World’s Oldest Harbor
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Egyptologists were the happiest people in the world back in 2011 when an archaeological mission set with a completely different…
Here Are 11 of the Oldest Examples of Written Language in History
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The exact number of written languages used in the ancient world will forever remain a secret as archaeology continues to…
Tenochtitlan: 10 Facts About the Ancient Aztec Capital You Probably Didn’t Know
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Tenochtitlan, the great capital of the Mexica (as the Aztecs referred to themselves), became one of the most important cities…
11 Things You Should Know about Hernan Cortes: The Conqueror of the Aztecs
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History remembers Hernan Cortes as the most ruthless of all Spanish conquistadors. Historians often criticize the inhumane methods of subduing…