History

Archaeology Alexa 10 Jul 2025

Legend says that high atop a tree-covered hill near the village of Saschiz in Transylvania, there used to be a giant’s fortress that housed, as the name implies, giants.

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Archaeology Alexa 08 Dec 2022

The Caspian Sea seems like the least talked about body of water, for it has kept many of its mysteries still hidden.

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Archaeology Alexa 08 Dec 2022

Bread is considered a standard food that people have been consuming for thousands of years and constantly seems to evolve. No exact origin can determine with infallible accuracy where it was first created. Archaeological evidence discovered shows how widespread it truly has been in the past, a precursor of its use today.

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Archaeology Alexa 08 Dec 2022

History had many conflicts that shattered empires and eradicated entire cultures and forts are still visible in many countries in ruin. All this fighting has left many scars on historical consciousness and on the very soil where battles have been waged. We shall look at a few of these remains in the form of some legendary fortresses around the world.

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Archaeology Alexa 07 Dec 2022

Finding out more about the past is an adventure in itself, and Neanderthals are a big part of the human evolutionary path. Aside from historical sources such as chronicles and ancient etchings on stones, archaeology finds sources in remains. Discovering where people came from goes back so far that writings were not a thing. The only thing to find is bones, tools, or other scattered remnants.

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Archaeology Alexa 06 Dec 2022

The fascination for dinosaurs and their life on the planet before us has always been in the spotlight, and T-rex is one of the most popular. And what is the most recognizable of them if not the king of the dinosaurs as we have named him, Tyrannosaurus Rex?

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Archaeology Alexa 06 Dec 2022

Wherever people chose to settle down, we tend to leave signs in the ground of our presence there that form ruins and monuments. Usually, the marred earth is dug up by archaeologists looking to find exactly such signs of habitation. Pursuing knowledge from the past we sometimes stumble into more questions than answers.

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Archaeology Alexa 05 Dec 2022

The whole world has heard of Pompeii and the catastrophe that befell it, and even after so many years, we are still fascinated. The catastrophe itself is what made the ancient roman city famous, along with the volcano Vesuvius that caused the destruction.

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