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For the sake of the argument, you get to arrive up to 24 hours before the event starts and leave up to 24 hours after it ends.

Eventually, an artist will be chosen to transform the bronze bars into a public art installation

A piece of rock with mysterious markings that lay largely unstudied for 4,000 years is now being hailed as a “treasure map” for archaeologists, who are using it to hunt for ancient sites around north-western France.

by Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, et.al....

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Set to chill instrumental music. Paris, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Geneva, Kyoto, London, Giza, New York, Germany, Madrid, Barcelona, Venice, Dublin, Moscow, Lyon, Marseille, etc.

Old newspaper I found on the death of FDR enjoy.

The preference of locale is to cover global time zones to fit lemmy world’s guidelines for moderators. I’m in Spain, Siyah is from Pakistan. The history community is growing to the tune of 100 new subscribers per month, so I, as the head moderator, am responsible for making certain all bases are covered for “large...

A tattoo referencing Christ was found on the 1,300-year-old body of an individual in what is now Sudan.

It seems to me that in the interwar period there were a lot of tanks designed with the idea that they would stay with groups of infantry, providing direct fire support while being a lot more durable than a field gun. My understanding is that this was generally abandoned in favour of faster tanks which operated somewhat...

‘Intensive fort construction’ took place at the borders of Rome’s reach.

After the whole reddit API fiasco, I wanted a way to browse the AskHistorians subreddit on my phone without using the reddit app or website. It also bugged me to have all this valuable information on a site that might make it disappear on a whim....

In an extraordinary archaeological discovery in Freising, Germany, experts have unearthed a medieval skeleton equipped with an iron prosthetic hand. The burial, dated to the 15th century, offers compelling evidence of early prosthetic technology and medical innovation.

Archaeologists have uncovered a “folding chair” from the 7th century AD during excavations in the village of Endsee, located in Middle Franconia, Germany.

If I could witness any historical event firsthand, I would choose to witness the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Great American hero items to be in the hands of a private person. Just upset its not gonna be me.

Archaeologists uncovered over 100,000 ancient coins, some more than 2,000 years old

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