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King Charles’ godson had extensive business ties with a US defense contractor now accused of a massive tax evasion scheme, records show
Lord Charles Tryon, who is not accused of wrongdoing, held key positions in several firms prosecutors allege were part of the ...
Ancient Greece's cultural rise started a century earlier than previously thought—new research
While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...
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DNA Evidence Is Rewriting the Stories of Victims Who Perished in Pompeii Nearly 2,000 Years Ago
A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...
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Archaeologists find early Islamic battle site in Iraq using 1970s spy satellite images
Archaeologists have located the site of an important seventh-century battle in southern Iraq by using Cold War satellite ...
Interesting Engineering11h
US spy satellites uncover 7th-century battlefield that shaped Islam’s spread
One of the most important sites in Islam's history has now been identified and surveyed, owing to US spy satellite images ...
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Unearthing History: Cold War Satellite Imagery Reveals Site of Decisive Battle
A British-Iraqi archaeological team discovered the seventh-century Battle of al-Qadisiyah site using declassified 1970s U.S. spy satellite images. This battle marked a turning point in Islamic ...
Greek City Times19h
Battle of Issus in 333 BC between Alexander the Great and Darius III, which brought the first Persian Empire down
November 12, 333 BC. The second triumph of M. Alexander over the Persians, after Granikos, in the Battle of Issus. This time, his opponent was their king himself, Darius III, who panicked and fled in ...
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Archaeologists identify centuries-old battle site in Iraq using declassified spy satellite images
“It was a pivotal moment in history,” he said. The area is now farmland ... Empire into the abyss and the expansion of Muslim ...
The Washington Post19h
Spy satellite images lead archeologists to the site of a historic battle in Iraq
The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq — in the A.D. 630s between Arab Muslims and the army of the Sassanid Persian dynasty during a period of Muslim expansion. The ...
Guiding Light: The Way Of Guru Nanak
Guru Nanak was a prophet of harmony— one of the greatest spiritual luminaries in Indian history of humanity. Far and wide ...
Declassified US Spy Satellite Images Reveal Ancient Battle Site
As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...