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Why You Wouldn’t Last 24 Hours in the Dark Ages - This is The Day in a Life

The Middle Ages are often imagined as knights, castles, dragons, and courtly love, but the transcript presents a much harsher ...

Residents say repeated sewage backup plagues homes along County Road 943

Tenant Derrick Cole said he has lived in the area about a year and a half and regularly finds sewage outside his home.

Archaeologists uncover massive artifact depicting pharaoh thought to have challenged Moses in Exodus

Archaeologists in Egypt recently uncovered a massive statue believed to depict King Ramses II, the pharaoh believed to be a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Dead Bodies Filled a Mass Grave When the First Plague Pandemic Struck This Early Medieval City. New Research Explores the Identity of the Victims

Researchers analyzed isotopes and DNA in the teeth of remains found in a mass grave from the Plague of Justinian, which swept ...
IFLScience on MSN

The 'Plague of Athens' was one of the world's first epidemics – and now we may know what caused it

Amnesia, foul breath, gangrene, and unstoppable diarrhea. These were just a few of the symptoms caused by an ancient disease ...