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Viking warriors sailed the seas with their pets, bone analysis finds

livescience.com

Submitted by ArtOak t3_10sceu6 on February 3, 2023 at 5:39 AM

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Proof of mystery settlement of Aboriginal Australians and Indonesians found in an Italian library

abc.net.au

Submitted by Geek-Haven888 t3_110ii33 on February 12, 2023 at 3:37 PM

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The American Heiress Who Risked Everything to Resist the Nazis

smithsonianmag.com

Submitted by That-Situation-4262 t3_11366pk on February 15, 2023 at 7:23 PM

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Battle site of 'Great Revolt' recorded on Rosetta Stone unearthed in Egypt

livescience.com

Submitted by AugustWolf22 t3_10s4tpz on February 2, 2023 at 11:43 PM

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r/history live voice discussion event

Submitted by [deleted] t3_1140bov on February 16, 2023 at 8:33 PM

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CT scans of a medieval woman’s skull reveal an unprecedented case of cranial surgery using a cruciform incision — on a living subject who survived prior cranial drillings, circa 6th- to 8th-century BCE in central Italy

arstechnica.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_113dmn0 on February 16, 2023 at 12:49 AM

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How an All-Black Female WWII Unit Saved Morale on the Battlefield | History

smithsonianmag.com

Submitted by That-Situation-4262 t3_1129y3s on February 14, 2023 at 4:45 PM

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Bookclub and Sources Wednesday!

Submitted by AutoModerator t3_10wuvu0 on February 8, 2023 at 12:00 PM

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Beeston Castle - Mercian Explorer

mercianexplorer.com

Submitted by ctyates t3_111ktn9 on February 13, 2023 at 9:39 PM

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Skeleton reveals lifestyle of medieval woman - BBC News

bbc.co.uk

Submitted by Mundane_Practice1 t3_10xvuu9 on February 9, 2023 at 2:18 PM

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Lead Plates and Land Claims in North America and Europe: When did the practice begin of burying lead plates to establish ownership of land, and why did it die out, and was it ever used successfully in a court of law to establish ownership?

Submitted by whyenn t3_10uixkg on February 5, 2023 at 6:05 PM

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Trove of spices from around the world found on sunken fifteenth-century Norse ship

phys.org

Submitted by ArtOak t3_10z7bgs on February 11, 2023 at 12:19 AM

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Was it a good Idea for vercingetorix to take refuge with his army in Alesia in 52bc?

Submitted by thereasonyousuffer t3_10ujzp2 on February 5, 2023 at 6:47 PM

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New evidence indicates that ~2.9 million years ago, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever found to butcher hippos and pound plant material, along the shores of Africa’s Lake Victoria in Kenya

news.griffith.edu.au

Submitted by marketrent t3_10yc9jh on February 10, 2023 at 1:16 AM

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Tavern from c. 2700 BCE rediscovered in Iraq with food, bowls, and a contemporary clay-refrigerator inside

smithsonianmag.com

Submitted by MeatballDom t3_10xn9o9 on February 9, 2023 at 6:10 AM

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Archaeologists from Arkeologerna have unearthed an early 17th century sword from the time of the Kalmar War. A conflict between Denmark–Norway and Sweden that lasted from 1611 to 1613.

heritagedaily.com

Submitted by Apprehensive-Ad6212 t3_10v41cp on February 6, 2023 at 11:11 AM

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Would the Allies have kept fighting if the axis powers stopped?

Submitted by Techno-87 t3_10w72s6 on February 7, 2023 at 5:08 PM

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Neanderthals had a taste for a seafood delicacy that's still popular today: "Neanderthals living 90,000 years ago in a seafront cave, in what's now Portugal, regularly caught crabs, roasted them on coals and ate the cooked flesh, according to a new study."

cnn.com

Submitted by PhillipCrawfordJr t3_10wfqvm on February 7, 2023 at 10:49 PM

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New version of the Epic of Gilgamesh — the first to contain all known transcriptions of about 22,000 text fragments, circa 130 BC to date — will be made publicly accessible

lmu.de

Submitted by marketrent t3_10vcex7 on February 6, 2023 at 5:27 PM

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Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Capt. Bligh's 1791-93 journey

phys.org

Submitted by Culturedecanted t3_10t1igg on February 4, 2023 at 1:34 AM

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Opium War: The Conflict That Changed China Forever | The National Interest

nationalinterest.org

Submitted by Joke-Fast t3_10tkp7h on February 4, 2023 at 4:38 PM

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Bookclub and Sources Wednesday!

Submitted by AutoModerator t3_10qsj6g on February 1, 2023 at 12:00 PM

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Discovery of embalming workshop reveals how ancient Egyptians mummified the dead

edition.cnn.com

Submitted by Magister_Xehanort t3_10r7mjm on February 1, 2023 at 10:02 PM

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The family that bought the King's bed for £100

bbc.co.uk

Submitted by BarKnight t3_10q1djk on January 31, 2023 at 3:07 PM

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Medieval Mixed-Gender Fight Club: Behold Images from a 15th-Century Fighting Manual

openculture.com

Submitted by ArtOak t3_10pqptr on January 31, 2023 at 6:22 AM

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