Historical Facts

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It’s March 2019 in Egypt, and a team of archaeologists are excavating an ancient burial ground. Thousands of years ago, the early pharaohs were laid to rest ...

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The Egyptian Empire. An empire that was among the first and longest-ruling civilisations in human history and lasted nearly three thousand years. Over the ye...

Pompeii has a significant erotic past, as sex was power in the Roman empire. Whoever had the most sex workers in their brothel was considered the most powerful man in town. What surfaced under the ashes of Pompeii are hidden truths about the concept of se...

Concubines and harems have a longstanding place in Chinese history. But did you know that there were several Chinese emperors that had male concubines in addition to women? One of these emperors was the widely popular Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty....

Roman slaves were the lowest social class and had no official marriage, legal protection, or ownership rights. Their owners were open to killing and punishing them. Three kinds of slaves were prominent in Roman History, depending on what they did and wher...

James E. Williams knew that time was running out for him and his team. Their two patrol boats had been ambushed by more than 50 Viet Cong sampans at the Meko...

How Penicillin Won World War II

How did the Romans Prove Their Identity?

"Who dares, wins”. Nowadays the British SAS - Special Air Service is considered one of the best special forces in the world. Yet its wartime origins are shro...

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In 1971, the Shah of Iran, the self-proclaimed 'king of kings', celebrated 2,500 years of the Persian monarchy by throwing the greatest party in history. Money was no object - a lavish tent city, using 37km of silk, was erected in a specially created oasi...

"Once he decided to attain absolute power, he would never relinquish it," observes Alexandre Allilouiev, nephew of Joseph Stalin. "He was a monster." In orde...

Soldiers served an average of 25 years in the imperial Roman army. In the face of relentless campaigning, harsh discipline, and brutal demographic realities, how likely were they to survive to retirement?

The Enigma machine could've provided the edge that Nazi Germany needed to win the Second World War, instead, it became a vital tool for the Allies. Polish cr...