What if the facts you learned in history class were wrong? Historians dedicate their whole careers to uncovering and understanding our past, but …
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10 Historical "Facts" That Are Actually Totally Wrong
A few things we learned in school might be wrong. As the saying goes, history is written by the winner, leaving much of the truth out. In recent years, historians and experts have been coming forward to reveal the true stories about the world's most significant historical events.
There are millions of artifacts from the ancient world that shed light on how our ancestors lived many millennia ago. Some are basic tools, while …
Discovering the Americas is less straightforward than we might be led to think. Christopher Columbus is celebrated as having discovered the New World …
Napoleon is known to have had a potent influence on the modern day world. He brought liberal improvements to the regions that he captured.He left a …
Known to the many as Cleopatra, Cleopatra VII Philopator was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Egyptian Kingdom who was survived by her son as the …
Urban legends are a genre of story that permeate entire cultures and serve as word-of-mouth tales of mysterious happenings. Unlike other fictional …
The Salem witch trials, held from February 1692 to May 1693, were the numerous hearings and prosecutions of individuals accused of practicing …
Benjamin Franklin was one of the American founding fathers who took part in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin was a man of …
The first image that comes to a person’s mind when they hear the word "Vikings" may be a tall, muscular man with a braided beard and a helmet with …
Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642 in a place known as Woolsthorpe in England. His father, Isaac Newton, passed on three months before …
Who Invented The Light Bulb? Many inventors and scientists are thought to have taken part in the invention of the first electric bulb. However, the …
