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Where Was Jesus Buried? Inside The Search For The Place Where The Christian Messiah Was Laid To Rest
After Jesus Christ was crucified outside the city of Jerusalem, the Gospel of John states that his body was placed in “a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.” But where was this tomb? Where ...
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Workers Preparing To Construct An Apartment Building In Switzerland Just Uncovered An Ancient Roman Settlement Filled With Rare Artifacts
Augusta Raurica is one of the most important ancient Roman sites in Switzerland. Located just north of the Alps, it’s an active archaeological site as well as the home of a museum that holds more than ...
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The Ill-Fated Lives Of Marie Antoinette’s Four Children, From The Sickly Dauphin To The Exiled Daughter
Marie-Thérèse, Louis-Joseph, Louis-Charles, and Sophie were the four children of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI of France — but despite their initial wealth and power, only one of them survived ...
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Scientists Uncover The ‘Oldest Human Fossil Outside Africa’
The newly dated fossil suggests humans migrated out of Africa far earlier than we thought. When a broken skull was excavated from a limestone cliff in the Apidima cave in Greece in the 1970s, experts ...
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An Amateur Diver In England Purchased A World War I Shipwreck On Facebook For Just $400
Amateur diver Dom Robinson has been exploring shipwrecks for more than three decades, and now he is the owner of one. Robinson was browsing Facebook Marketplace when he came across a listing for the ...
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Scientists Discover 8,000-Year-Old Drawings Inside A Two-Billion-Year-Old Impact Crater In South Africa
"As scientists, we recognize the special nature of the impact crater, but it was also recognized by ancient inhabitants of the area," a geologist said of the discovery at Vredefort. A number of ...
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How Did Rosa Parks Die? Inside The Civil Rights Icon’s Death At Age 92
Rosa Parks’ death on Oct. 24, 2005, came almost exactly 50 years after she made history by refusing to leave her seat for a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This simple act of ...
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Researchers In Kentucky May Have Just Unearthed A Mass Grave Of Black Union Soldiers Massacred During The Civil War
On a January day in 1865, Company E of the United States Colored Cavalry was ambushed by a group of Confederate guerrillas in Simpsonville, Kentucky. The 22 men of the Black company were brutally ...
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The Haunted S.K. Pierce Mansion Is For Sale In Massachusetts
The S.K. Pierce Mansion, one of the "most haunted" homes in Massachusetts, was listed for sale for $1.2 million in April 2025 ...
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New Study Finds Eating Just 10 Ounces Of Chicken Per Week Is Associated With A 27 Percent Increase In Risk Of Dying
A multi-year Italian study suggests there is a link between regularly consuming large amounts of poultry and an increased risk of gastrointestinal cancers and cardiovascular disease. The study, which ...
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What Does SPQR Mean? The History Of The Ancient Roman Acronym
“The Senate and Roman People” or “The Senate and People of Rome” was a phrase that once represented the essence of the Roman Republic’s political system. In Latin, the phrase was “Senatus Populusque ...
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An Ancient Pillar Head Believed To Depict A Menorah Was Unearthed During Roadwork In Jerusalem
During excavations on the outskirts of Jerusalem in 2020, archaeologists were surprised to find a stone capital — the top of a pillar or column — that seemed to be adorned with an image of a menorah.