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A tiny ceramic jug buried nearly 600 years ago in Russia held more than 2,600 silver coins. Archaeologists have a chilling theory about why its wealthy owner never returnedA small ceramic jug discovered in Russia's Kolomna has revealed more than 2,600 silver coins buried nearly 600 years ago. The remarkable ho...- Deadly plague ravaged this Italian island, thousands died and were burned, with ashes rumoured to make up 50% of the ground before it became home to a haunted mental hospitalPoveglia island, once a place of quarantine, is shrouded in a chilling tapestry of disease and demise. Its forsaken hospital stands as a te...
- In 2016, Montana researchers used drones to drop peanut butter vaccine pellets for prairie dogs, hoping to protect the endangered ferrets that depend on themIn Montana, drones were utilized to distribute peanut butter-flavored plague vaccines to prairie dogs in a crucial effort to protect the en...
- In 1518, hundreds of people in France danced uncontrollably for weeks until they collapsed; historians still cannot solve this mysteryIn the summer of 1518, hundreds of people in Strasbourg danced uncontrollably for days and even weeks, with some reportedly dying from exha...
- A tale of two minorities: Why India never saw anti-Jainism like Europe's anti-semitismA comparison of Jains in India and Jews in Europe explores why one civilisation enabled coexistence while the other descended into exclusio...
- History's most famous Halley's comet may need a new name, and the real discoverer was a monk nobody ever heard ofHalley’s Comet naming controversy is reshaping astronomy history after new medieval research revealed a forgotten discovery from nearly 1,0...
- The Decameron: When will the dramedy release on Netflix in US and UK?Netflix is gearing up to launch its latest period drama, The Decameron. After the Bridgerton Season 3, Netflix is set to captivate audience...
- After 'Mario', Nintendo’s ‘The Legend of Zelda’ game to be adapted into live-action filmNintendo is developing a film based on its hugely popular 'The Legend of Zelda' franchise, the Japanese gaming giant announced, as it bids ...
- Plagues, poisons and magical thinking - how COVID lab leak hysteria could be straight from the Middle AgesThe "lab leak" theory about the origin of COVID-19 is a complicated story of magical thinking and blame, that medieval history tells us has...
- World TB Day: Once regarded as a death sentence, tuberculosis is mostly curable today; six red flags to watch out forMen, the elderly are more vulnerable to TB.
- From Black Death to Covid-19: Pandemic historian says recurrent outbreaks push people to embrace life & death in newer waysThe Black Death ended, but plague carried on, making periodic return visits through the centuries.
- A centuries-old Venice connection to the last date of Lockdown 2.0?While an extension was widely expected, most had assumed the last day of the new phase would be April 30, the date many chief ministers had...
- Economic life after Covid-19: Lessons from the Black DeathPost the Black Death, a realization that life is short, played a big role in shaping interest rates in Europe.
- The ritual handshake loses its grip In the time of coronavirusIf handshakes are indeed injurious to health, can we dispense with the custom once and for all?
- View: Pandemics are breeding grounds for trade warsSuch outbreaks flourish thanks to one factor: international trade, the original pandemic superhighway.
- Weeks before polls, former Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar resigns from the partyTanwar announced his resignation on Twitter and posted a four-page resignation letter addressed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
- Croatia’s lessons of history, from ships to soccerThis tiny country has repeatedly triumphed over the many challenges it has faced over centuries.
- William H McNeill, prize-winning world historian, dead at 98McNeill's 'The Rise of the West' published in 1963 won the National Book Award & it sold well despite exceeding 800 pages.
- Check and mateTo lose it well — or to live in spite of it — is to love and not to hate all things that are mortal. That, in essence, is Bergman’s grand m...
- Legendary Swedish filmmaker passes awaySwedish film director Ingmar Bergman, widely regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema, died Monday, the president of the direc...
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