# pyramids
16 Historic Sites That Used to Be Packed – Now Deserted by Tourists
Once bustling with visitors, many historic sites across the globe now stand eerily quiet, their grandeur faded and their corridors echoing with memories rather than crowds. Changing travel trends, political instability, and…
Fascinating Biblical and Biblical Era Archaeology
In the first century BC King Herod the Great, the baddie from the Bible who ordered the execution of all…
Facts About Ancient Egypt They Didn’t Teach In School
The Egyptian civilization of the pharaohs lasted for an incredibly long time – more than three thousand years. To put…
Ancient City’s Destruction by Asteroid Gave Rise to Biblical Sodom Story
The destruction of the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah is one of the Old Testament’s more gripping stories. A…
Pythagoras’ Greed Cup and Other Lesser-Known Ancient World Facts
The ancient world was chock full of fascinating facts that are little known today. For example, how many know that…
40 Things About The Outlandish Math Cult Leader, and Other Unusual Facts From the Ancient World
Most of us know Pythagoras from grade school geometry, as that ancient guy who came up with that theory about…
Cleopatra Lived Closer to the Computer Age than to the Pyramids, and Other Atypical History Facts
We all have mental images of what we picture history was like. Implanted by schools, history books, conventional wisdom, popular…
20 Mind-Blowing Facts from African History that Made Us Rethink Our World History Lessons
Here’s a bold statement to begin: much of what you think you know about African History is plain wrong. Until…
10 of History’s Most Fascinating Archaeological Finds
Archaeology, or the study of historic activity by recovering and analyzing the physical aspects of the past, is vital to…
10 Unlikely Simultaneous Historical Events
Every now and then, our perceptions about when some historical events happened in relation to each other can turn out…