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Playing God: Mossad’s Murder of Achmed Bouchiki

On the evening of 21 July 1973, in the quiet Norwegian town of Lillehammer, a couple walked home from the

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Sacred Waters: Nearly 1,000 Miniature Vessels Found in Demeter Temple

Sacred Waters: Nearly 1,000 Miniature Vessels Found in Demeter Temple Archaeologists excavating the ancient Greek city of Aigai in western

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Neolithic Twin of Knossos: First 8,800-Year-Old Farming Houses Discovered in Turkey

Archaeological excavations on Turkey’s westernmost island have uncovered the earliest known agricultural settlement in the Aegean Sea, revealing five circular

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Researchers Delight As Ecuador’s First Ever Rock Paintings Are Found

Researchers from the University of Cuenca have made what could be one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in Ecuadorian

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When Summer Meant Sea Serpents

From the 1860s, late July through to mid-September became known as the ‘silly season’. With Parliament and law courts in

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To Understand the History of European Culture, Start with the Minoans

Ellen Adams/The Conversation The Minoan culture was the first highly complex society on modern European soil, with palaces, writing, stunning art – and even flushing

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Cowboy Diplomacy in the Spanish-American War

By 1898 tensions at Arizona’s border with Mexico had waned but not disappeared. The end of the Mexican-American War in

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Spain Was Different: Tourism Under Franco

South of the Pyrenees lies the holidaymakers’ Utopia’, promised a 1958 Thomas Cook brochure: ‘a spectacular, flamboyant kingdom of the

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Shocking Discovery: Neolithic Farmers Cannibalized Enemy Families

A gruesome archaeological discovery in Spain has revealed that 5,700 years ago, Neolithic farmers engaged in systematic cannibalism against entire

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Historic Spanish Privateer ‘La Fortuna’ Discovered Among Colonial Shipwrecks

Maritime archaeologists from East Carolina University have uncovered a remarkable collection of four colonial-era shipwrecks along the historic Brunswick Town