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Mansa Musa, the 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire, amassed immense wealth through gold and strategic trade, becoming ...

In the final years of the First World War, the Russian Empire was coming to its end. It had been devastated by revolution and ...

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You thought Starbucks was a coffee company. But behind the lattes lies a financial machine. By turning prepaid cards and app ...

Digging into the chalky orange-brown soil of western Germany, archaeologists exposed the ruins of an ancient Roman military ...

With the US operation in Iran triggering fresh arms races, Russia’s turn from multipolarity to imperial nostalgia highlights ...

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Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

Author Simon Fower discusses tens of thousands of men and women who performed heroic acts on the Home Front during the Second ...