The early 18th century was a time of radical transformation in Europe. Enlightenment thinkers were laying the foundations of modern science and reason. Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica had been published…
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On the storm-swept morning of August 4, 1265, the English countryside near the quiet town of Evesham bore witness to one of the bloodiest and most merciless clashes in medieval…
Deep beneath a 76-meter-high burial mound in Xi’an, China, lies the unopened tomb of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor to unify China in 221 BCE. Despite knowing its location…