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2016, December
12427 Ancient graffiti in Pompeii is hilarious and fa...
8820 How we became more than 7 billion – humanityâ...
7774 My Great-Grandfather Reginald Whitehead slipped...
6454 The 154th anniversary of the largest mass excut...
6102 How the concept of zero changed the world
6123 How did people wake up on time in the past?
5555 Finding North America's lost medieval city
5149 Göbeklitepe: World's oldest temple to be nomin...
5261 My great grandfather's SS papers.
4767 Archaeologists uncover a 'Stonehenge' in Brazil...
2016, November
14393 While decluttering last year, my gram came acro...
14276 Forrest Gump tells the story of a "slow-witted"...
11265 Archaeologists have found more than 40 vessels ...
10221 A Bronze Age City That Was Flourishing For 1,20...
8717 During a smallpox epidemic in 1721, Cotton Math...
9304 Superb film of the Battle of the Somme using re...
7726 7300-Year-Old City Excavated In Egypt
7950 November 9 is a very special day in modern Germ...
6864 Crusader-era hand grenade found in Israel
7029 The sound of English in 1500
2016, October
13319 Austria to demolish house where Adolf Hitler wa...
12617 The centennial anniversary of World War I is on...
8740 An animated guide to WW1
7639 Diary entries of a German solider during the Ba...
8146 Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just ...
6689 Q: At what point did the word 'Caucasian' stop ...
6124 2200 years old Rental Agreement unearthed in Tu...
5564 177 year old sunken steamboat found in Missouri...
5849 Western contact with China began long before Ma...
5345 Huge 3D scanning project lets you walk around a...
2016, September
15231 Transcripts reveal the reaction of German physi...
8897 Emperor Nero's rotating dining room really exis...
9035 Scientists use 'virtual unwrapping' to read anc...
17684 Ancient Roman coins found buried under ruins of...
8375 Skeleton find could rewrite Roman history
8117 Janitor and scientist. James Croll was a Univer...
6959 Human skeleton found on famed Antikythera shipw...
7681 Historians of Reddit, What is the Most Signific...
6336 Rare home movie footage in Europe taken by an A...
5859 Today 72 years ago operation Market Garden started
2016, August
16076 Here's a photo and translation of a Soviet sold...
12448 Stalin's 1938 letter to his son Vasily's teacher.
6955 Japanese 'Tsunami Stones' date back hundreds of...
6976 Apparently, life as a Soviet Army soldier circa...
6061 Holocaust Photos I found in my grandfathers thi...
4916 Humans First Used Tools to Eat Meat 250,000 Yea...
5572 Walked away with a new understanding of slavery...
4020 After WWII, the British conducted trials of Jap...
4475 Is it possible that the assassination of Archdu...
3992 My Grandfather was part of Easy Company
2016, July
12990 100 years ago one of the worlds bloodiest battl...
10016 The British Museum has got its hands on a 5,000...
10611 Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace...
12171 Happy 160th birthday to Nikola Tesla!
6354 In 1945, my (lawyer) grandfather apparently had...
6240 Is there any Roman record or mention of Jesus?
5016 Bruno Lüdke: Germany's worst serial killer dur...
4876 Antibiotic resistance discovered in the guts of...
4200 The woman who forced us to look death in the fa...
4044 The Great War - A Youtube Channel Devoted to Ta...
2016, June
12118 Alexander Carmichael, who spent 50 years collec...
4168 Old World metals were traded on Alaska coast se...
4315 How did humans initially inhabit Hawaii?
3614 This delightful man does amazing recreations of...
3643 Found a threatening note from the IRA to my gra...
3310 Nazi architecture, then and now
3390 A 700,000-year-old 'Hobbit' fossil find could s...
3200 Original Stonehenge was dismantled in Wales and...
3528 Toward the end of World War 2 three million peo...
3103 Sensational archaeological discovery in Norway ...
2016, May
8696 "After a calligraphic study, 80 experts say Col...
7070 A Secret Tunnel Found in Mexico May Finally Sol...
6809 Animated map showing everyone to immigrate to t...
5486 5,000 Year Old Beer Recipe Found by Archaeologists
12540 History isn't a 'useless' major. It teaches cri...
4030 Russian prison tattoos and their meaning (inclu...
3774 494 images of Germany from just before World War I
3726 Greeks and Romans? Helmets. Knights and Conquis...
3491 Scientists have completely mapped the genome of...
3202 Today Germany and France are officially commemo...
2016, April
9490 Dr. Joe Medicine Crow-High Bird, the last Plain...
7843 How humanity first killed the dodo, then lost i...
12067 I want to check if you guys are interested in a...
5566 My grandfather kept a diary during. I never kne...
4789 Had this Japanese flag for 6 years, finally get...
3135 Persian Philosophers Text Describes A Supernova...
2946 Millennium-old 'sunken town' found off Tamil Nadu
2623 Nikola Tesla vs Thomas Edison...why did I only ...
2344 A natural wonder lost to a volcano has been red...
2217 Roman Villa Unearthed 'By Chance' in Wiltshire ...
2016, March
7796 "We’ve tried to amend the Constitution 11,000...
6946 "An Icelandic saga tells of a Viking who had un...
3513 600-year old ring given to Joan of Arc by her p...
3931 "Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she wa...
2778 With all the recent news about King Tut's tomb,...
2713 Dan Carlin - Hardcore History: King of Kings II
2888 Have there ever been any GOOD dictators?
2280 Anglo-Saxon island is discovered...in a field n...
2420 Who are the first named people in recorded hist...
2119 My great grandfather Kurt Wittig and his life a...
2016, February
7345 I found a rising Youtube channel called History...
5762 In 1865, the Steamboat Arabia sunk in the Misso...
5372 The last known duel in France took place in 196...
4147 Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupit...
6390 Disbelieve it or not, ancient history suggests ...
4104 Astonishing, rare images of the Vietnam War fro...
3772 Skeleton discovered under Scottish primary scho...
3591 Henry "Black Death" Johnson, killed four German...
2632 Rome, the Eternal City. Rendered in 3D at it's ...
2522 Siege of Constantinople, 1453
2016, January
8444 The site of the Salem witch hangings has been d...
4793 4,000 year-old shipwreck belonging to Minoans f...
4650 From 1480 to 1913 European Queens waged far mor...
3654 The once-lost 1962 anti-pornography film Pages ...
3564 900-year old "Holy Well" confirmed beneath the ...
3065 N.Y. Public Library Releases 180K High Res Phot...
2984 'Mein Kampf' published in Germany for 1st time ...
2963 In 1823 this letter was sent by Hugh Glass to t...
2543 Remains found buried under playground under a p...
2198 Cincinnati built a subway system and never used...