All posts tagged with real history
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-(Natural News) Imagine stumbling upon a fossil from the Pleistocene era during a trek at a farm. That’s exactly what happened to a teenager who, while hunting for arrowheads, discovered a 30-inch-long fossilized mastodon jaw complete with teeth, on a farm in southern Iowa. According to paleontologists from the University of Iowa who analyzed the […]
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-(Natural News) The Maya civilization was one of the most powerful and scientifically advanced empires of the ancient world. However, by the end of the ninth century, the busy streets of its great stone cities were abandoned, signaling its collapse — an event that, since the 19th century, has intrigued and confused scholars. A recent […]
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-(Natural News) When it came to mealtimes, medieval peasants had better food choices than most of us do today. In a recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, researchers from the University of Bristol in England noted that croppers from this period lived on meat stews, leafy vegetables, and fresh dairy products – foods that were […]
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-(Natural News) More than 10,000 years ago, human settlers started populating the region that eventually became Scandinavia. Researchers at Stockholm University (Stockholm), the University of Oslo (UiO), and their partners have recently discovered that the ancient Scandinavians kept their teeth clean and healthy by collecting bark tar from birch trees and used the plant-based material as chewing gum. Once […]
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-(Natural News) A recent study has discovered that ancient Egyptians ate domesticated watermelons (Citrullus lanatus) that resembled the ones enjoyed today. Even better, the Egyptians might have been the ones who bred the familiar traits into the wild fruit in the first place. The watermelon originated in Africa. However, the wild gourd does not resemble the domesticated […]
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-(Natural News) Want to know what ancient Middle Eastern beer tastes like? Try asking this team of researchers from Israel: In a study published in mBio, microbiologists and archeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority and four local universities used yeast strains that lay dormant for thousands of years to brew potable “ancient beers.” For the multi-layered study, researchers isolated yeast […]
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-(Natural News) The few times in our history when Congress has either voted to impeach a president or considered returning articles of impeachment, the process was handled very publicly. Hearings were not held in secret. Testimony was not taken behind closed doors. Witnesses and evidence were presented out in the open so the American people, […]
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-(Natural News) This will be a short post. Events are moving quickly, and I’m filling in for Alex Jones today on his Sunday broadcast while he bullhorns “queen of warmongering” Hillary Clinton in Austin. You can catch that broadcast at InfoWars.com starting at 4pm central today. A friend recommended I pick up the book, “Hidden […]
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-(Natural News) Researchers recently discovered the ruins of an ancient Egyptian military fortress. Estimated to be 2,600 years old, the “castle” acted as the gateway to the border between the modern-day nations of Egypt and Iran. Located in the North Sinai province of Egypt, the fortress arose during the rule of Psamtik I (664 B.C. […]
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-(Natural News) The atomic bombing of Hiroshima during the Second World War destroyed much of the old city. Many decades later, a study found that some of the debris from the eruption ended up in the province’s beaches, where they condensed into glass beads. In 1945, the U.S. Air Force unleashed an atomic bomb nicknamed […]
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