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The Tollund Man's Last Supper
The cause of death and final meal of a mysterious bog body from Denmark
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Did an Ancient Balkan Culture Invent Writing Before Mesopotamia?
The story of the Vinča culture, Europe’s first civilization
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Latest Historical Discoveries: May 2025
A round up of the hottest finds from May 25'
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The Silk Road Conflict That Wiped Out One-Sixth of Humanity
The devastating effects of the An Lushan rebellion
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The Great Timbuktu Book Heist
How the city's librarians smuggled 400,000 ancient texts past Al-Qaeda
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The Ice Age Mammoth Hunters Who Invented Ceramics
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In This Town People Still Live in 9000 Year Old Stone Age Homes
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The Indo-European Origin Puzzle Just Got Solved
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Latest Historical Discoveries: December 2024
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How Old is Sanskrit?
Proposing a timeline for Sanskrit’s origins based on its earliest texts, historical records, horse genetics, and archaeology
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The Death Cult At Çatalhöyük
Understanding why residents of a 9000-year-old proto-city lived with the dead
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Why Were the Mongols Called Tartars?
Mongols and Tartars were bitter rivals, so why are the two synonymous?
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The Last Stand of the Wolly Mammoth
The Ice Age giant's tragic end on Wrangel Island
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Your Guide to Forgotten Footprints
Start here to uncover stories lost to time
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The Mystery of Cahokia’s Mounds: America’s Lost Ancient City
The rise and fall of the largest pre-Columbian metropolis north of Mexico
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The Mystery of the Siberian Ice Maiden
A 2,500-Year-Old Mummy with Tattoos Turned Into a Battleground Between Tradition And Science
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Who Were the White Huns?
Exploring the rise and the legacy of a forgotten power which tormented India and Persia during antiquity
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Caral-Supe: The Pyramid Builders as Old as Pharaohs
The rise and fall of the first urban civilization of the Americas
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Forgotten Footprints
Forgotten Footprints
Forgotten Footprints brings you tales from lesser-known civilizations and cultures from the Ice Age to the collapse of the Mongol Empire.
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