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‘After 1177 B.C.’ Review: How the Bronze Age Turned Iron
The Wall Street Journal· 2 months agoBOOKSHELF The Bronze Age in the Near East and Aegean region began around 3000 B.C. It peaked in the...
How Queer Was the Roman Empire? Very.
The Advocate via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAlmost every day since Mike Johnson was elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, some evidence of his virulently anti-LGBTQ+ views has...
When did Rome fall?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMany historians consider the fall of the Western Roman Empire to have been when the emperor Romulus Augustulus abdicated, but not all historians agree.
4 killed after tourist bus falls off cliff in Peru
NY Daily News via AOL· 2 years agoFour people were killed and another 16 were injured after a minibus fell off a cliff in Peru. The incident occurred Sunday around 7 p.m. near the Abra...
"And now I give her my life” - The death of Lord Byron and the birth of Modern Greece
Iowa City Press-Citizen via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOn April 19, 2024, mournful Greece will commemorate the bicentennial of the death of her dazzling...
28 Little-Known Facts That People Wish Others Knew About, And I've Gotta Say, I Will Never Forget...
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOver on r/AskReddit, u/Just_Free_Tea recently asked, "What is a fact that you think barely anyone...
Ten Years Ago, His Book About Civilizational Collapse Got Unexpectedly Popular. He’s Back With a...
Slate via Yahoo News· 2 months agoTen years ago, archaeologist Eric Cline’s book 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed became a...
“Bling Empire: New York” Thinks Social Striving Is Tacky
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe latest installment of the Netflix reality show presents a worldview in which upward mobility,...
Ancient coins unearthed in desert cave from time of Maccabean revolt
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn ancient treasure trove of silver coins found in a desert cave in Israel could add new evidence to...
A modern history of museum lootings
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMuseum theft. Illustrated | Getty Images On a recent episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, the show's host explored the dark history of museums,...