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Month: August 2024

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A colossal stone head at Chavin de Huantar depicting a man turning into a jaguar (PsamatheM / CC BY-SA 4.0)
2 AUG 2024 · 6 MIN

Chavin de Huantar: Do You Want To Meet a God?

Ask the average person about pre-Columbian South America and you would almost certainly hear about the Inca. This mountain kingdom which carved itself a loose empire that runs the length of the…

Bezoar stones in the Munich Residenz (Schtone / CC BY-SA 3.0)
2 AUG 2024 · 6 MIN

Bezoar Stones, the Universal Antidote: More Than a Mistake?

It is fair to say that the history of medicine has been something of a hit and miss affair. Without modern technology to aid in our understanding of the root causes of…

Hezarfan Ahmed Celebi was said to have flown over the Bosphorus like another Icarus (George Tsiagalakis / CC BY-SA 4.0)
1 AUG 2024 · 5 MIN

Hezarfan Ahmed Celebi, the Man who Flew Over the Bosphorus

Almost everyone has heard of Leonardo da Vinci, who is rightly held up as one of the greatest minds in history. Supremely skilled as a painter, inventor, scientist and polymath, his fizzing…

King Kamehameha I, the first king of the Kingdom of Hawaii (Louis Choris / Public Domain)
1 AUG 2024 · 6 MIN

Hawaii and the US: A Deal with the Devil

Hawaii was the last of the fifty states to join the United States of America. And, were you to dig a little deeper, it might seem strange that it did.  There is…

The Great Pyramids of Giza are the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Yasser Nazmi / CC BY-SA 3.0)
1 AUG 2024 · 5 MIN

So, What Exactly is Hidden Inside the Great Pyramid?

There is no site more emblematic and obviously ancient Egyptian than the pyramids at Giza. The only wonder of the ancient world still standing, these three enormous pyramids and their attendant sphinx…