Alexander the Great conquered the region around 329 B.C.E., leaving behind Greek and Macedonian settlers who intermarried ...

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Shakespeare's late son Hamnet was real, but there's a lot we don't know.

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The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

They were a church cult – whatever they called themselves. They kept me locked away because I knew what they were doing was ...

Which parts of the movie are rooted in history, and which are the speculative stuff of Lee lore?

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The slow loris is the only known primate that is venomous, placing it in an elite club of venomous mammals alongside the platypus, certain shrews, the European mole, and a handful of others. The slow ...