History is in the making - It's technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History should reflect that.
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The gossip trap - How civilization came to be and how social media is ending it
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Lost Silk Road cities unearthed in Uzbekistan's high mountains
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German Navy Enigma machine systems were different to the Army, making them tougher to crack. In this video, James Grime discusses the differences and what Alan Turing achieved in breaking the code.
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Over 300 new 'Nazca Lines' geoglyphs have been revealed by AI
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Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption
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B-17 Flying Fortress | Units of History
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
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Britain’s vast network of abandoned nuclear bunkers | Cold War UK
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DNA from stone age chewing gum sheds light on diet and disease in Scandinavia's ancient hunter-gatherers
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A Dutch artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D
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Researchers use AI to read from 2000 year old Herculaneum scroll
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‘We put in air conditionin’, stayed year-round, and ruined America’
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A portrait of Tenochtitlan
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Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked.
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On successor states and websites
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Hold the line - The short history of women switchboard operators
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Cosmic rays reveal 'hidden' thirty-foot-long corridor in Egypt's Great Pyramid
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The mechanical transmission of power: Stangenkunst
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How China conquered the keyboard
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
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The ingenious ancient technology concealed in the shallows
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Nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments revealed by laser mapping—many for the first time
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How life improved since 1990
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Tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of the first mobile phone call
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New technique reveals centuries of secrets in locked letters
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The lost history of socialism’s DIY computer
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How Covid brought the future back
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The paradox of progress
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Technological stagnation
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Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
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Helicron propeller driven car (1932)
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Celebrations of Progress - A look at some major celebrations of historical achievements, and thoughts about why it seems like nothing similar has happened recently
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Entire Roman city revealed using ground penetrating radar
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What happened to giant Ekranoplans?
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When the USS John S. McCain crashed in the Pacific, the Navy blamed the destroyer’s crew for the loss of ten sailors. The truth is the Navy’s flawed technology set the McCain up for disaster
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Slot Machine - A British Pathé short film about vending machines in 1960s Britain
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The first transatlantic telegraph cable was a bold, beautiful failure
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The Soviet superplane that rattled America
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The Lighting Budget of Thomas Jefferson
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A band of Polish mathematicians figured out much about how German Enigma encoding machines operated, years before Alan Turing did
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Drone reveals massive Stonehenge-like circular monument in Ireland
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