1+ week, 6+ day ago   (86+ words) Quiz: Can You Identify Some of the World’s Oldest Objects? History.com World’s Oldest Things Quiz TEST - Dance Moms: A New Era Trivia Quiz History’s Greatest Mysteries Trivia Quiz Time Machine: 1960s Quiz Which Invention Came First? Time Machine: 1950s Quiz Which…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (558+ words) Neanderthals had greater upper-body strength than modern humans. A Neanderthal woman re-created and built by Dutch artists Andrie and Alfons Kennis. Since the 1800s, skeletal remains from hundreds of individual Neanderthals have been recovered. Yet, many consist of only a “single…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (762+ words) Ancient Romans blamed the deadly “breath of Cerberus” for the mysterious deaths at Pluto’s Gate. When the Roman Republic turned western Anatolia into their new province of Asia in 129 B.C., the ancient city of Hierapolis became a booming spa…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (877+ words) The torpedoing of the German ocean liner Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945 led to the deaths of some 9,000 men, women and children. The Wilhelm Gustloff in June 1940, when it served as a hospital ship during the war. The deadliest maritime disaster of…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (678+ words) More than 3,000 years ago, an ancient society buried thousands of strange artifacts—then vanished. The bronze standing figure unearthed from the sacrificial pit at the Sanxingdui site in Guanghan, Sichuan Province. “These bronze masks and heads are so different from…...