In the 1600s Sweden was a great military power – why did they decline?
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Why were Ancient Egyptians obsessed with cats?
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The ancient Greeks who converted to Buddhism
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Towers of silence
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Ancient Beat - the newsletter of ancient history - celebrates its 100th Issue
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Modern Viking music: Tragedy of a misunderstood art
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Queen Margrethe II is the first Danish monarch to abdicate in 900 years – but it is just a sign of the times
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The Vikings and the Muslim scholar
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Review: The Verge, by Patrick Wyman
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The Silk Road: Eight goods traded along the ancient network
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Letter showing Pope Pius XII had detailed information from German Jesuit about Nazi crimes revealed
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Israeli proposal to move early Christian mosaic to US Museum of the Bible sparks controversy
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Strongly influenced by Quakers 175 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA
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The medieval food that killed an English king, and could be used to pay your rent
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What was it like celebrating a birthday in the middle ages?
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Birth of a nation
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Why 95% of Denmark's Jews survived the Holocaust
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France’s baby bust
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The shape of Vodou in diaspora
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The evolution of Father Christmas
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Minneapolis church still holds services in Norwegian – congregation was founded in 1922 at the tail end of a decades-long migration of Norwegians to Minnesota
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The true history of the Knights Templar with Dan Jones
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Three things I got wrong about patriarchy
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Poland and the Jews. It’s complicated.
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How do ancient stories of talking elephants and singing birds encourage a life of truth, nonviolence and compassion?
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
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How did English medieval peasants see themselves?
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Tolerance by Accident, Trust by Design
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What is Day of the Dead?
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Introduction to the Upanishads - The Essence of Vedic Philosophy
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The Malê Rebellion in Bahia: Brazil’s African Muslim uprising
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The Golem and the Jewish Superhero
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An old Norse 'godhouse' has been discovered in Norway – site reflects how the rise of Christianity to the south affected the worship of the Norse pantheon
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The Heavenly Court
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In defense of hellfire: The rhetoric of damnation has been lost. But how else can we adequately condemn injustice?
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The mysterious religion of Carthage
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An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud
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Charles Coughlin, the 'Radio Priest' who brought fascism to America in the 1930s (1979)
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When monks went undercover to steal relics
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The Pope just proposed a universal basic income. Is the United States ready for it?
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The fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries
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Vatican opens archives of World War II-era Pope Pius XII
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Finding faith in the gods of the Vikings – Richard didn't expect his hobby would help him find his own belief through Norse mythology
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Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it
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The Muslim world’s question: ‘What happened to us?’
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A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel
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Nara: Sacred images from early Japan
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Third Crusade - The Beginning
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Can animals commit crimes?
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How this border transformed a subcontinent | India & Pakistan
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