The 12th-century military disaster that forever changed global finance
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Gods in the classroom: Religion and education in 1st millennium BCE Babylonia
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We have recently discovered and recovered forty-eight prehistoric arrows in Jotunheimen – the trend is clear: now the oldest ice is melting
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Off the Norwegian island of Fedje lies a German World War II submarine believed to contain a huge load of mercury – why salvaging it has become a race against time
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Deep inside a Spanish cave, Roman women may have worshipped a mysterious goddess
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With swords, axes and shields, competitors from thirty countries are going head-to-head in the grounds of a Danish fortress in a modern version of old-fashioned battle
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How Die Zeit built a searchable database of Nazi party members
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A Roman scroll that should be ash has just been read without ever being opened
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Rare copy of Declaration of Independence found by UK National Archives in papers of captured US ship
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Pre-modern armies for worldbuilders, part III: paying for it
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Spanish Civil War animated
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How do you preserve a 400 year old Swedish warship? Vasamuseet in Stockholm is tackling the continued challenge of maintaing the 17th century Vasa.
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New search engine reveals if ancestors were in Nazi party
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Over 200 years after being sunk by the British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson, one of Denmark's most famous warships has been discovered at the bottom of Copenhagen Harbor
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Tattooing in the American Civil War was a hedge against anonymous death
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The Candlemakers' Petition by Frédéric Bastiat (1845)
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Stone Age boy in Sweden was buried in deerskin and a woodpecker headdress, archaeologists discover
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17th century Swedish Navy shipwreck buried underwater in central Stockholm for 400 years has suddenly become visible due to unusually low Baltic Sea levels
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On ancient migrations
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The Mangual, or two handed chain flail. Used extensively in Spain and Portugal from around 1400 -1650. | Weird Weapons
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Scientists find foreign trees and one fingerprint on iron age warship from Scandinavia
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Medieval myth busting - arrows vs armour 3, using historically accurate reproductions from 1450
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How we unlocked the secrets of Denmark's oldest plank boat – with the help of an ancient fingerprint
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This road goes straight through a major prehistoric cave
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Hermann and Albert Göring: Two very different brothers
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The almost forgotten Japanese-American truce at Aka
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This is not a ruined cottage | The Druridge Bay ruin
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Voices of the Manhattan Project: Peggy Bowditch’s interview
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The British empire’s role in ending slavery worldwide
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Russian Civil War, Winter 1917-1918
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Researchers uncover Stone Age settlement submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark
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Life and death aboard a B-17, 1944
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A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humans
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We found French underwear in an ancient Sumerian city | Girsu Project | Curator's Corner S10 Ep4
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The cure for scurvy, forgotten
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Scientists built a canoe using only prehistoric tools. Then they sailed the dangerous 140-mile route early humans traveled 30,000 years ago.
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The deportation campaigns of the Great Depression
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The American civil-military relationship
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The Faroe Islands are the only country that celebrates their World War II occupation
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Why did the UK government nationalise this pub?
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The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be
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How the US built 5,000 ships in World War II
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How the 'Shetland Bus' helped Norway resist Nazi Germany – innocent-looking fishing boats delivered valuable cargo and special agents
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In April 1945 the Swedish Red Cross launched the largest rescue operation of World War II – the mission, involving the now-iconic “White Buses”, ultimately saved 15,000 prisoners
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Did the United States almost support Nazi Germany in World War II? (No)
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On the Resistance in Belgium platform, anyone can research resistance activities in Belgium during World War II
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Remembering Betty Webb: Bletchley Park and Pentagon code breaker
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Why the island of Bornholm is Danish and not German, Swedish or Polish
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Book review of Robert Ferguson's fascinating history of the experiences of the Norwegians during the five years of German occupation
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Europe's undeciphered prehistoric tablets
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