HISTORY

The Death of Clive of India
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- . November 11, 2024
In the days following the sudden death, aged 49, of Robert Clive – ‘Clive of India’ – on 22 November

Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic? | History Today
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- . November 8, 2024
Thanks to Joseph Goebbels, the film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst luxuriated in a massive budget for the dramatised documentary he

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot to Obliterate the British House of Lords
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- . November 5, 2024
Every fifth of November, people across the United Kingdom celebrate Guy Fawkes Night (also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire

Mesopotamians Made Predictions with Sheep’s Livers
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- . November 2, 2024
Selena Wisnom/The Conversation I’m standing in a basement kitchen prodding at a sheep’s liver, looking for marks on its smooth

5,000-Year-Old Settlement Plus Early Temple Uncovered in Israel
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- . October 30, 2024
Archaeologists working in Israel have discovered a 5,000-year-old settlement at Hurvat Husham, near Beit Shemesh, as a prelude to the

New Discovery at Pompeii: Lavishly Decorated “Tiny House” Uncovered
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- . October 27, 2024
Archaeologists working in Pompeii’s ancient Amanti Island district have unveiled a unique small residence with vibrant, intricate frescoes that rival

Sacred Tunic of Alexander the Great Found in an Ancient Macedonian Tomb?
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- . October 24, 2024
A fragment of purple fabric, a sacred chiton (tunic), found in a royal tomb in Vergina, Macedonia, northern Greece, could

Jewish Cemetery Lost Since 1290 Found in London
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- . October 21, 2024
A hidden medieval Jewish cemetery, once believed to be lost, has been rediscovered beneath the Barbican Estates in London, close

The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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- . October 18, 2024
Like all legal institutions, the Spanish Inquisition recognised that justice needed not only to be done but also to be

Ancient Humans Survived the Last Ice Age Without Migrating Like Other Species
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- . October 15, 2024
John Stewart & Jeremy Searle/The Conversation Humans seem to have been adapted to the last ice age in similar ways