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  • Belzoni, the pioneer of Egyptology who unearthed the temples of Abu Simbel and opened an entrance to the pyramid of Khafre

  • Martha Ellis Gellhorn, the only woman to land in Normandy on D-Day

  • The 5 Great Last Battles of the Western Roman Empire

  • Priscus of Panium, the Roman historian who attended a banquet with Attila

  • Battle of Mons Badonicus, the first documentary reference to King Arthur

    No matter how many novels and films have dealt with his figure, some in a fantastic tone, others more realistic, it is very difficult to…

  • Why are there firefighters in Antarctica? Fire services at the South Pole

    In 1948 an accidental fire destroyed the facilities of Station D, the scientific base that Great Britain had built in Hope Bay, the eastern end…

  • The Nymphaeum of Mieza, the place where Aristotle instructed Alexander the Great.

    When Alexander the Great was already at war in Asia, strange news reached him from his homeland: his tutor Aristotle had made public his teachings,…

  • How the Karatepe bilingual inscription from the 8th century B.C. led to the decipherment of Anatolian hieroglyphs

    Just as the Rosetta Stone was fundamental in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, other writing systems followed a similar process, sometimes more rugged and convoluted.…

  • Saigō Takamori: the true story of the last samurai

    In 1877 the Satsuma Rebellion or Sainan War against the Japanese imperial throne ended with the victory of the latter and the definitive confirmation that…

  • The mysterious seismic pulse that repeats every 26 seconds, coming from the Gulf of Guinea

    Seismic detectors around the world have been capturing a curious and strange phenomenon for decades. Every 26 seconds the earth emits a pulse, a small…

  • The Chartres Cathedral’s great labyrinth

    About 80 kilometers southwest of Paris stands the city of Chartres, one of whose main cultural attractions is its Gothic cathedral built between 1194 and…

  • The world’s largest globes

    A globe is a three-dimensional scale model of planet Earth represented on a sphere where, sometimes, the topography of the surface is shown (obviously exaggerated…

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