//=time() ?>
Santa the Shaman Comes to the New World: The Shapeshifting Magic-Man from the Ancient Past https://t.co/Pqkd548f5L
Harpies were half-bird, half-woman #mythical #monsters of ancient Greco-Roman #mythology, soaring across the #sky, creating havoc and exacting revenge.
Read more: https://t.co/fAMiqsLLp3
Three #historians stumbled upon a more than 1000-year-old #sword in a forgotten forested part of #Poland and reported the find, which is now known to be a rare Boleslaw sword.
Read more: https://t.co/zgpRoewrz7
Sixth century mosaic of the Raising of Lazarus, church of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, Italy.
https://t.co/em60tarFT9
The #Tower of #Babel is remembered due to the famed #story within the Old #Testament. But tablets excavated in Iraq provide an Assyrian version of the same story. https://t.co/pkmVH2OnEb
Love him or hate him, Alexander the Great’s character has been described as mercurial and throughout history his narrative is colored by the subjective perspective of authors, bards and historians... https://t.co/McyvEx5mr5
2,200 years ago, a North African general almost destroyed the Roman Republic. Who was Hannibal of Carthage, and what, in the end, caused him to fail? https://t.co/GxJBmOa4Ie
Peter the Great ordered a beard tax to discourage Russian facial hair!
Read more: https://t.co/e6vBnN5G9d
Naked warriors, celtic mercenaries went to war in the buff.
Read more: https://t.co/snlyAvdCGk
#Ramesses II was one of Egypt’s longest reigning monarchs, yet his mummy was found in an ordinary looking wooden coffin that belonged to another king. How did such a humble casket become the resting place of such a flamboyant and celebrated ruler? https://t.co/Pzm7sQgR4B