HISTORY

The Megalithic Gate of Ha-amonga a Maui
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- . December 2, 2024
Scattered over 700,000 square kilometers (270, 271 sq mi) in the southern Pacific Ocean are the Tonga islands. On one

Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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- . November 29, 2024
‘Courageous, morally complex history – and superb scholarship’ Nile Green is Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at UCLA

Dongba: The Last Hieroglyph and the Struggle to Save Naxi Culture
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- . November 26, 2024
The Dongba symbols are an ancient system of pictographic glyphs created by the founder of the Bön religious tradition of

Shocking 2,000-Year-Old Fig Find Opens New Chapter in Ireland’s History
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- . November 23, 2024
A recent discovery at the Drumanagh promontory fort in North Dublin is reshaping our understanding of Ireland’s Iron Age trade

Telling Discovery Indicates Neanderthals Collected Fossils
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- . November 20, 2024
A Neanderthal cave in northern Spain has yielded 15 marine fossils, indicative that our extinct ancestors might have been collectors,

As the Taurid Meteor Shower Passes by Earth, Pseudoscience Rains Down – and Obscures a Potential Real Threat from Space
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- . November 17, 2024
Mark Boslough/The Conversation With the Taurid meteor shower now hitting the night skies worldwide, look for what could be a

Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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- . November 14, 2024
At 8.23am on the morning of 14 November 1994, crowds cheered as the first Eurostar train carrying fare-paying passengers under

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