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Emperor Caracalla: Was He as Bad as Everyone Says? History remembers Caracalla, who reigned over Rome from 198 to 217 AD as one of the empire’s most despotic rulers. He started his reign by killing his brother and massacring his followers before waging multiple bloody campaigns (usually with little to no justification).

An unidentified wrestling team with their coach pose for the camera, location unknown, dated as 1928.

A woman with three young girls out for a stroll in Manhattan’s, 1905.

This is how the head of a spear went through a bone during the Roman Gaelic War. It still remains in the bone after 2070 years.

Scholar finds doodles made by Henry VIII in ancient prayer book | CNN Toward the end of his life, England’s King Henry VIII left a series of doodles in a prayer book, revealing his anguish over his health and his past actions, new research shows.

A sidewalk street book vendor in Paris, 1920s.

Blackwall Tunnel entrance, circa 1910

Women Railway workers, 1918.

A couple in 1889.

4 Generations, 1 picture, 1905.

Picts, Gaels, and Scots: Exploring their Mysterious (and Sometimes Mythical) Origins When the tribe of Chatti arrived in Scotland at the beginning of the Christian era and became the embryonic clan Keith, they assimilated with the people known to us by their Roman name, the Picts.

Aethelstan, Anglo-Saxon King of England Aethelstan was the first King of Wessex to bring together all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England. He was well educated, very pious and a collector of saints relics and manuscripts. He was also a f…

Ancient Secrets Of Mysterious Dead Sea Scrolls And Eastern Papyri Revealed By Handwriting Analysis - Ancient Pages Advanced techniques to analyze the Dead Sea Scrolls and Eastern papyri are revealing vibrant secrets about daily life in the ancient world.

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Scientists discover 1 million-year-old DNA sample lurking beneath Antarctic seafloor The ancient DNA sheds light on how the region's ecosystem could be impacted by climate change.

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This is so sad, yet part of history. Could this be part of your history?

"4 Children For Sale", 1948 - The photo first appeared in the The Vidette-Messenger of Valparaiso, Indiana on August 5, 1948. The children looked posed and a bit confused as their pregnant mother hides in shame her face from the photographer after putting her childrens up for sale. The caption read: “A big ‘For Sale’ sign in a Chicago yard mutely tells the tragic story of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Chalifoux, who face eviction from their apartment. With no place to turn, the jobless coal truck driver and his wife decide to sell their four children. Mrs. Lucille Chalifoux turns her head from camera above while her children stare wonderingly. On the top step are Lana, 6, and Rae, 5. Below are Milton, 4, and Sue Ellen, 2”.

Family members accused the mother of being paid to stage the photo, which may have been part of the story, but unfortunately, she was dead serious about selling her children. Within two years all of the children pictures, as well as the baby she was carrying at the time, were sold off to different homes.

Alexander The Great Looted More Than A Trillion Modern U. S. Dollars Worth Of Gold And Silver In His First Three Years Of Rule (Bars of Gold, [Public Domain] via Pixabay)   When Alexander the Great expanded his power from Macedonia and Greece to Egypt, Persia and India, he was bound to make a lot of money. The sheer s…

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Eighteenth-Century North Carolina Timeline | NC Museum of History Explore eighteenth century North Carolina with this detailed timeline by the N.C. Museum of History staff.

The Statue of Liberty was built over the course of more than 15 years. This image shows the construction process in 1884, less than two years before she was finished.

800 years ago the Inuit and Yupik
tribes of Alaska and northern Canada
etched tiny openings into ivory, antler
to make snow goggles. This lessened
eve strain and prevented snow
blindness from UV radiation from both
direct and reflected sources.

Electric Charging cars in 1917.

The Amarna letters What are the Amarna Letters? the documents that would make up the great Tell el-Amarna archive, located in the so-called House of Correspondence of the Pharaoh.

One of America's great Victorian houses, the Batcheller Mansion Inn simply cannot compare to other Saratoga Inns. Built in 1873 in Saratoga Springs, NY, this American architectural masterpiece is an elegant mixture of small hotel and living history museum with the intimate feel of a bed and breakfast. Intricately carved European woodwork, hand carved marble fireplaces, family relics on loan from museums, original 1800's Batcheller family furnishings, and spellbinding grandeur make this one of a kind Saratoga inn and living history museum a stately retreat. Throughout the past 137 years, some of Saratoga's grandest parties were staged here, hosting U.S. Presidents, European Royalty, Dignitaries and Hollywood Celebrities. Designed by Nicols and Halcott of Albany, NY in 1873, this High Victorian Gothic mansion exhibits influences from the French Renaissance, Italian, and Egyptian styles. Photo by

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Coronation Gowns: Sensational Royal Dress Through Time The epitome of royal splendour, coronation gowns are one of the most important outfits a queen will ever wear. As we celebrate the extraordinary milestone of seventy years since Queen Elizabeth II&…

Surprising Stone Age Knowledge Revealed on a Mammoth Bone Bracelet In Sivershchina, close to the village of Mizyn in Ukraine is one of the oldest and most unique settlements of humans – and it was discovered in a parking lot. The now well-known archaeological site, known plainly as the Mizyn parking lot, dates back 18-20 thousand years.

Life and Death of Queen Ankhesenamun, Sister and Wife of Tutankhamun Ankhesenamun was born around 1348 BC, during the Eighteenth Egyptian Dynasty and fourth year of the reign of her father Akhenaten. The greatest and best sources that we have about her life are various relief and paintings, mostly depicting not her reign but the reign of her parents. Throughout the q...

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On 25th June 1883, six miners were killed and another 8 badly injured in an accident at the New Duffryn Colliery, Rhymney.