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Ancient Astronomical Alignments: Reading and Mapping the Stars at Early Advanced Civilization Sites

Ancient Astronomical Alignments: Reading and Mapping the Stars at Early Advanced Civilization Sites Many of the cuneiform tablets of Mesopotamia

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Mysterious Ancient Hittite Tablets And 8,000-Year-Old Ornaments Discovered In Kateřinská Cave, Czech Republic

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Katerinská Cave, located in the Moravian Karst of the Czech Republic, is a significant archaeological site

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‘The French Revolution: A Political History’ by John Hardman review

What was revolutionary about the French Revolution? Contemporary critics such as Edmund Burke lamented that France’s tyro politicians had squandered

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‘A Popular History of Idi Amin’s Uganda’ by Derek R. Peterson review

Idi Amin is often considered Africa’s most notorious postcolonial dictator. Around the time of his government’s fall in 1979, dozens

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Joyce Butler and the Sex Discrimination Act

The 50th anniversary of women’s suffrage in 1968 prompted a moment of soul searching for many women frustrated at how

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‘Christianity at the Crossroads’ by David N. Hempton review

Read this book’s title, and you might guess that David Hempton – perhaps the world’s greatest historian of Methodism –

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Books of the Year 2025: Part 2

If you haven’t yet read the History Today Books of the Year Part 1, you can find it here. ‘An

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Carl Hagenbeck’s Eight Thousand Tortoises

In the archive of Carl Hagenbeck’s Tierpark (Animal Park), which opened in Hamburg in 1907, there is a remarkable photograph

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Books of the Year 2025: Part 1

‘This is much more than the history of a place’ Erik Linstrum is Professor of History at the University of

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‘Heiresses’ by Miranda Kaufman review

Heiresses, as Miranda Kaufmann admits, is indebted to scholarship which has revealed, over many decades, the extent of the ties