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Slavery in ancient Rome is well documented. Various literary sources, legal documents, inscriptions and artistic representations show how common enslaved people were in everyday life. Yet we don't know exact numbers, making it hard to fully understand their importance to Roman ht

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Jacques Jaujard, the French civil servant who helped save national art collections during WWII. He served as the Director of the French National Museums (Musées Nationaux) during Nazi occupation. He secretly organized the massive evacuation and hiding of thousands of priceless ht

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The historical photograph shows Holocaust survivor Luigi Ferri as a young boy alongside Austrian Jewish physician and camp protector Dr. Otto Wolken in Kraków, April 1945... At just eleven, he faced an impossible decision. Instead of saving himself, he chose to stay by her http

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The severely crushed and mangled fire truck of New York City Fire Department Ladder Company 3 was one of the first firefighter units to show up at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Sadly, its all 11 firefighters aboard the truck tragically lost their lives during the

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Ostracism in ancient Athens was an annual democratic procedure where citizens voted to exile a political figure for ten years using broken pottery shards called ostraka... Ostracism was a political procedure introduced in 5th Century BC Athens, traditionally attributed to the ht

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@archeohistories She was a fascist and this story didn’t happen and she’s burning in hell for being a terrible person 13K views · 1.1K likes · 21 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

@archeohistories Oriana Fallaci. Hero, legend and fearless journalist. She died 20 years ago, on September 15, 2006, in Florence, Italy, at age 77. After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks she wrote a series of polemical books and essays that broke a decade of public s

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A portrait of Kenowun, a Nunivak Cup'ig woman (wears traditional garments made of animal fur alongside elaborate, dangling beaded labrets and a beaded nose ornament) from Nunivak Island, Alaska, photographed by Edward S. Curtis around 1929. The portrait is part of Curtis's https:

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A 6th Century BC, Corinthian black-figure "Monster of Troy" krater, depicting Herakles and Princess Hesione confronting the Trojan sea monster (ketos) .... Around 550 BC, Greek artisans in Corinth created a striking ceramic krater that captures one of the most dramatic legends h

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The 14th Century Byzantine gold seal ring bearing the name of Maria Skulena... Around 700 years ago, a Byzantine woman named Maria Skulena owned something surprisingly powerful: a gold ring that could make her name official. The rare 14th Century signet ring, associated with h

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Hungarian author and Nobel Prize laureate Imre Kertész as a young prisoner at the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945... 15-year-old Imre Kertész as a prisoner in Buchenwald, 1945. He survived the camps, wrote the novel 'Fatelessness', and went on to win the Nobel Prize in htt

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Queen Elizabeth II bowed her head as Princess Diana's funeral cortege passed Buckingham Palace on September 6, 1997... Queen Elizabeth II bowed her head as Princess Diana's coffin passed in front of her on September 6, 1997. The sovereign does not bow to her own subjects — http

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@archeohistories Its been 20 years since Oriana Fallaci died. Her critics called her a fascist but unlike them, she actually fought fascists. 29.5K views · 1.2K likes · 80 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →

Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci removing her chador during her tense 1979 interview with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Qom, Iran... In October 1979, Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci traveled to Qom, Iran, to interview the Islamic Revolution's supreme leader. To get inside h

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Famous illustrator Edward Gorey aka "the grandfather of goth" rocking his unique fashion style in NYC, 1970s... Edward Gorey was an American writer and illustrator whose meticulously crosshatched drawings combined Victorian and Edwardian settings with dark humor, mysterious htt

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The art of hitchhiking in the 1970's... By the early 1970s, hitchhiking had become remarkably common in the United States. What had once been associated with Depression-era workers and wartime servicemen became part of youth and counterculture life. Students and young travelers

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At the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh are a set of eight miniature coffins carved in wood and decorated with tinned iron. Each coffin contains a tiny wooden figure, with a painted face and dressed in clothes that had been stitched and glued around them. Since their http

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The discovery of a new phallic carving in Roman northern England is more than funny – it could be a powerful talisman... The fort of Vindolanda, on the Hadrianic frontier (south of Hadrian’s wall), now in northern England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧, an internationally famous site, which was occu

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This photograph of Victoria, Princess Royal, was taken circa 1855, around the time of her engagement to Prince Frederick of Prussia... Known to family and friends as "Vicky", the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert was 15 years old when 24-year-old Frederick https:

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@archeohistories The strongest evidence comes from ancient self-identification rather than modern borders. Herodotus says Alexander I of Macedon demonstrated Argive descent and was admitted to the Olympic Games as a Greek. More than a century later, Alexander III dedicated Persia 610 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

In Iran around 1880, carpet weaving was far more than a domestic craft—it was a deeply embedded cultural tradition and an essential part of many women’s lives. Women, often from childhood, learned the intricate patterns passed down through generations, their hands guided by both

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Everyone in Afghanistan feared the Iron Amir. According to a saying in Kabul, there was one woman the feared ruler may have feared himself: his own wife. Bibi Halima was one of the principal wives of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, the ruler who dominated Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901.

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Security video frame grab of England's Princess Diana (R) leaving the Hotel Ritz from back entrance, minutes before she was killed in a car crash. The footage was recorded shortly after midnight on August 31, 1997, at the Ritz Hotel in Paris. Diana and Dodi Fayed had decided to

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Jeremy Glick was thirty-one years old when he boarded United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. He was traveling for work. His daughter, Emerson, was only twelve weeks old. It was supposed to be an ordinary flight across the country. Then the hijackers seized the https://

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The unsettling truth is that as Osama bin Laden’s plot ripened, America’s intelligence agencies already knew his name. They knew his network. They had traced his path from financier of the Afghan jihad to architect of global terrorism. And they knew that al-Qaeda had imagined htt

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@archeohistories It’s an attack against Greece. 441 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

@archeohistories The fascinating part is how modern nationalism can turn ancient history into a territorial argument. Alexander lived more than 2,000 years before modern Albanian national identity emerged, so calling him “Albanian” is anachronistic but claiming ancient identities 806 views · 17 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →