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Built by Amenhotep III and then used by his grandson Tutankhamen, the ruins of the city were an accidental discovery. In September last year, Hawass and his team were searching for a mortuary temple of Tutankhamen.
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Hereâs an interesting fact: if you didnât pay your insurance premiums in 17th and 18th century London, firefighters would simply let your house burn, even if they were on the scene. This fact has been repeated many times by many people, so it must be true, right? Or is it?Â
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The underground resistance group the East River Column played a vital role opposing Japanese forces around Hong Kong during the Second World War. Their activities provided a lifeline for Allied prisoners of war, who they aided with support, shelter, and a means of escape.
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Before dawn on the morning of June 4 1629, the Batavia, a ship...
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Reading time: 6 minutes When crisis strikes, one imagines members of government or heads of state...
Read MoreThis lesson we will be learning about Genghis Khan and his devastating military campaigns that led to massive expansions of the Mongol Empire.
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1. How many Allied vessels were lost during Operation Dynamo, the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation?
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Australian airmen and sailors played a pivotal role defending Malta. Their actions defending the beleaguered island fortress helped turn the tide of the war. Your visit to the places Australian servicemen and servicewomen lived, served and fought on Malta begins as soon as you step off the aircraft at Maltaâs international airport.
This airport began life as RAF Luqa, which was one of the busiest airfields during the defence of Malta.
In this lesson we will be learning about the Axis powers of the Second World War.
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Michael Vecchio Every year on March 17th, much of the western...
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Little remains of the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader and one of the greatest reformers in Russian history.
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The size of the first population of people needed to arrive, survive, and thrive in what is now Australia is revealed in two studies published today. It took more than 1,000 people to form a viable population. But this was no accidental migration, as our work shows the first arrivals must have been planned.
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We know that some modern human genomes contain fragments of DNA from an ancient population of humans called Denisovans, the remains of which have been found at only one site, a cave in what is now Siberia.
Two papers published in Nature today give us a firmer understanding of when these little-known archaic humans (hominins) lived.
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Our knowledge about the people who lived in Roman Britain has undergone a sea change over the past decade. New research has rubbished our perception of it as a region inhabited solely by white Europeans. Roman Britain was actually a highly multicultural society which included newcomers and locals with black African ancestry and dual heritage, as well as people from the Middle East.
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During the battle of Pinios Gorge, which took place in April 1941, Anzac troops played a pivotal role in delaying the German advance to Larisa in central Greece, a town of significant strategic importance. Once youâve visited the battlefield area, there are plenty of reasons to hang around. This brief guide will get you started with recommendations about what to see and do.
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Most school kids can describe in detail the life cycle of butterflies: eggs hatch into caterpillars, caterpillars turn into cocoons and cocoons hatch. This seemingly basic bit of biology was once hotly debated. It was a pioneering naturalist, Maria Sibylla Merian, whose meticulous observations conclusively linked caterpillars to butterflies, laying the groundwork for the fields of entomology, animal behaviour and ecology.
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For most of the human history of Australia, sea levels were much lower than they are today, and there was extra dry land where people lived. When people first arrived in Australia as early as 65,000 years ago, sea levels were around 80m lower than today.
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His is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged by strength.
Nelson Ferguson, from Ballarat, was a stretcher-bearer on the Western Front in France in World War I. He survived the dangers of stretcher-bearing in some of Australiaâs most horrific battles: the Somme, Bullecourt, Ypres and Villers-Bretonneux. In April 1918, at Villers-Bretonneux, he was severely gassed. His eyes were traumatised, his lungs damaged. Upon his return home, he met and married Madeline, the love of his life, started a family, and resumed his career teaching art. But eventually the effects of the mustard gas claimed his eyesight, ending his career. Courageously enduring this consequence of war, he continued contributing to society by assisting his son and son-in-law in their stained-glass window business. Advances in medicine finally restored his sight in 1968, allowing him to yet again appreciate the beauty around him, before his death in 1976.
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Most scientists agree modern humans developed in Africa, more than 200,000 years ago, and that a great human diaspora across much of the rest of the world occurred between perhaps 60,000 and 50,000 years ago. In new research published in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, we have uncovered dozens of distinctive historical changes in the human genome to reveal a new chapter in this story.
THE INFLUENCE OF MONARCHS – AUDIOBOOK By Frederick Adams Woods (1873 – 1939)...
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