Meet The 4,000-Year-Old Olive Tree That Saw The Rise And Fall Of Alexander The Great’s Empire—A Biologist Explains
The olive tree of Vouves has survived fire, droughts and other climatic shifts while watching history unfold over millennia.
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It's the 'First Material Evidence' of World's First Empire
Archaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old ...
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Warhammer: 40K, The Old World, and Age of Sigmar – It’s All One Timeline
Can we find a direct connection between Warhammer 40K and the other Warhammer Games? The clues GW left are all right in front ...
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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...
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Dead sheep to gold: 4,000-year-old tablet reveals world’s first empire’s secrets
Archaeologists have unearthed “administrative tablets,” which provide the oldest tangible proof of the world’s first empire, the Akkadia. The findings reveal the surprising existence of a ...
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The sun has literally set on the British Empire
“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase ... But thanks to cosmic geometry, a major chapter in world history has just now come to a close. As first highlighted ...
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Ancient Ghana
Despite its name, the old Empire of Ghana is not geographically, ethnically, or in any other way, related to modern Ghana. It lies about four hundred miles north west of modern Ghana. Ancient ...
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The British Empire during World War One
The war involved people from all over the world. Britain's colonies sent over ... and New Zealand Army Corps with their one-year-old pet kangaroo 'Joey'. Official portraits of Queen Mary and ...