Unmasking the Plague Doctor: The Real History Behind the Beaked Suit
Iconic imagery surrounds few historical figures as powerfully as the plague doctor.
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Iconic imagery surrounds few historical figures as powerfully as the plague doctor.
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A temple complex discovered 300 miles north of Uruk is forcing scholars to reconsider how the world’s first metropolis influenced surrounding regions.
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Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, published in 1820 as part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., presents what many assume to be authentic American folklore.
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The peaks where Inca priests performed their most sacred ceremonies stood so high that few witnesses ever returned to describe what happened there.
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A 1,300-year-old sabre recovered from Hungarian soil tells the story of an Avar warrior whose grave was plundered centuries ago, yet whose weapons inexplicably remained untouched.
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Rising 8.5 meters at Tell es-Sultan, this 10,000-year-old structure challenges everything we thought we knew about early civilization, labor, and architecture.
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Walk through any Mediterranean market today and olive oil still holds pride of place.
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A 5,500-year-old ceremonial site in Jordan shows how communities rebuilt their social fabric after cultural collapse.
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In 1982, a backhoe operator named Steve Vanderjagt uncovered human skulls while clearing land for a housing development called Windover Farms near Titusville, Florida.
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Victorian spiritualism as profit-driven industry: How 19th-century entrepreneurs built commercial empires exploiting grief through mediums, spirit photography, and institutions.
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This week’s archaeology discoveries include a 12,000-year-old human-faced pillar in Turkey, up to 20,000 medieval coins found near Stockholm, a Roman soldier’s tombstone in New Orleans, ritual platforms that helped…
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Ancient Alexandria produced countless scholars, but only one achieved such prominence that her brutal murder sent shockwaves across the Roman Empire.
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