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The world's largest human poop is a 1200-year-old Viking treasure
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (517+ words) Home → Science → History Discovered beneath a Lloyds Bank in York, the world's largest fossilized human poop is a scientific treasure. History remembers warriors for their conquests and kings for their reigns. But this one Viking left behind something more tangible…...
The Year 536 AD Was So Bad It May Have Been the Worst Time in Human History to Be Alive
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (632+ words) Volcanoes, famine and plague made 536 a leading candidate for history’s worst year....
The British Museum Is Hiring a Treasure Hunter— But Not the Kind You See in Movies
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (556+ words) After a heist, the museum turns to records, persistence, and patience to recover its past. More than two years after the British Museum revealed that hundreds of objects had gone missing from its Greek and Roman collections, the losses are…...
Ancient Colombians Built a Landscape Bigger Than London Without Needing a Ruler
1+ week, 4+ day ago (363+ words) New research challenges the idea that great infrastructure requires powerful rulers....
Is Tutankhamen’s Tomb at Risk of Collapse Due to Flash Floods and Weak Rock?
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (586+ words) The grave lasted millennia, only to be attacked by floods in the 1990s. West of Luxor, the Valley of the Kings is full of eroded or destroyed royal Egyptian tombs, many damaged by sudden flash floods that periodically strike the area....
American Colonists in 1776 Lived With Pain Every Day and Their Medical Tools Show How Brutal Life Was
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1079+ words) Home → Science → History The medical tools of the Revolutionary period help flesh out the picture of what physical well-being felt like for people living in the American colonies 250 years ago. Trade the tricorn hats, bonnets and homespun shirts for flip…...
How People Have Been Using Their Hands to Secretely Store Vast Amounts of Information For Over 1,000 years
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1005+ words) The ancient trick to memorizing anything fits right inside your own pocket. No one knows who made a particular drawing of an 8th-century monk, perhaps a member of an esoteric Buddhist cult traveling the Silk Road. Nonetheless, the piece sat…...
How a 400-Year-Old To-Do List Proved a Sudanese Mythical King Was Real
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (565+ words) A simple note from the trash reveals proof of the existence of a Nubian king and insight into how a kingdom was run. “The King of Nubia is always at war,” the 16th-century writer Leo Africanus famously claimed. But a…...
Scientists Found a Real Mummy’s Curse Hiding in the Online Trade in Human Remains
2+ week, 1+ day ago (620+ words) Online sales of mummified remains may expose buyers, sellers and postal workers to hidden hazards....
Gruesome Iron Age Massacre May Have Intentionally Targeted Only Women and Children
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (913+ words) It may have been an extreme act meant to destroy rival bloodlines. But a second look with modern tools shows these people didn’t succumb to disease. They were brutally murdered. Researchers used advanced bioarchaeological techniques to find unhealed blunt-force and…...