Mysterious board game artifacts found in a 2,300 year old Chinese tomb
In true Jumanji style, archaeologists have come across a mysterious board game that hasn’t been played for almost 1,500 years. The game and its assortment…
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Banquet of Blood: Abbasids wipe out their opponents in a single night of feasting and gore
From the other side of the silver screen, many of us gasped at the fictional atrocities committed at the unraveling event of the Red Wedding…
10 tallest man-made architectural triumphs from our ancient world
While the modern skyscrapers are designed as instruments of economy and industries, their counterparts in the ancient world were largely defined by the collective religious…
Archaeologists may have found the ‘hidden’ yet massive Acra fortress in Jerusalem
The fortress of Acra had a significant scope of mystery attached to it – mainly because historians have not been able to actually identify the…
10 of the oddest military encounters recorded in history
While we have previously talked about cryptic underground temples and magnificently mysterious cathedrals, the military history side of affairs also has its fair share of…
Ancient Egyptians probably doled out brutal punishments for their workers
A wall carving from Ancient Egypt makes a straightforward case for brutality, by entailing the punishment for stealing animal hides – ‘100 lashes and five…
Pigs have ‘fortuitously’ unearthed the earliest evidence of humans in Islay, Scotland
When a gamekeeper was employed to release his pigs to clear out some bracken at a local port on Islay (east coast of Scotland), little…
Bronze Age Britons might have been experts in mummification
A few days ago, we talked about ‘British-made’ Silbury Hill – the biggest prehistoric man-made structure in Europe that even rivals some of the smaller ancient…
Aachen Cathedral: An enigmatic masterpiece signifying the end of ‘Dark Age’ in Europe
Often referred to as the ‘Imperial Cathedral’, the Aachen Cathedral (in Aachen, west of Bonn, Germany) is a Roman Catholic church that is the oldest…
10 intriguing things you should know about the Achaemenid Persian Empire and its army
When the Assyrians were carving out the world’s first true ‘super empire’ from the period of 10th century to 7th century BC, a wave of…
