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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Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy
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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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Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy
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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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Mazed is a collection of the traditional tales of Cornwall, each with a map showing the tale's location
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How far back in time can you understand English?
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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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The complicated origin of the expression ‘peanut gallery’
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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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Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating stories of love, loss and epic battles
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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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The Berkshire mystery: where exactly is "Berk"?
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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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I joined a ‘sacrifice’ ritual outside Stockholm – and found that the revival of Norse paganism reflects broader battles over identity and climate anxiety
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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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The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet
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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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On weird America
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Life and death aboard a B-17, 1944
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From printing presses to Facebook feeds: What yesterday’s witch hunts have in common with today’s misinformation crisis
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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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Scandinavia has its own dark history of assimilating Indigenous people, and churches played a role – but are apologizing
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The mysteries of Roman inscriptions are being solved with a new AI tool
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Vatican sent Italian children born out of wedlock to America as orphans; new book uncovers program
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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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ITA was a 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of UK children unable to spell
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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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Why forty-two languages have the same word for "pineapple"
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The Faroe Islands are the only country that celebrates their World War II occupation
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