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42 facts about Kyshtym disaster
42 facts about Kyshtym disaster
The first nuclear accident in Earth's history
Before information about it saw the light of day, the Soviets hid it for over 30 years. The explosion at the Mayak combine was the first nuclear accid ...

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Axum Empire
Steles (vertically aligned slabs with inscriptions or bas-relief decorations, vertical tombstones), unique in the world, have survived to the present day in the former kingdom of Aksum.
Stelae marked graves or commemorated important events. They were constructed from a single fragment ...
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Mohenjo-daro
The first excavations were carried out only in the 1920s by the English archaeologist, John Marshall.
But as early as 1856, workers building a railroad that ran along the Indus Valley encountered many f ...
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Battle of Thermopylae
The battle of Thermopylae had little impact on the fate of the war.
The Spartans lost, but dealt a big blow to Xerxes, showing their strength, boosting the morale of th ...
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Medieval world
The Middle Ages brought two deadly epidemics to Europe.
The first, the Plague of Justinian, struck the Old Continent between 541 and 542, when it arrived in ...
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Mali Empire
The Mali Empire maintained a semi-professional, full-time army to defend its borders. It was a well-organized army with an elite corps of horsemen and infantry in each battalion. The entire nation was mobilized, and each clan was required to provide a certain number of soldiers of fighting age.
The army consisted of 100,000 soldiers, of which 10,000 were cavalry. In addition to weapons, it was ...
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Troy
The right to Priam's treasure - one of mankind's most important cultural assets - is the subject of a dispute between Russia, Germany and Turkey.
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Jamestown
John Rolfe’s tobacco plantation is the reason the colony survived.
Upon Rolfe’s arrival in Jamestown in 1610, he started a plantation with South American tobacco seeds ...
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Mali Empire
There are 150,000 manuscripts in the collections of Timbuktu's private and public libraries.
Some of them date back to the 13th century. Researchers believe there are many thousands more under ...
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Kyshtym disaster
As a result of the explosion, the cooling system of the remaining radioactive waste tanks was damaged.
A meter-long mound of earth was prepared at the epicenter of the explosion. Then Soviets drilled int ...
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Dyatlov Pass incident
For the first few days, the group traveled by means of transportation.
They moved by train and one or two trucks. Initially they reached Ivdel through Serov by rail, and o ...
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39 facts about Dyatlov Pass incident
39 facts about Dyatlov Pass incident
Mysterious tragedy in the Ural mountains
The case of a group of students at the Ural Polytechnical Institute in Sverdlovsk continues to arouse great interest and raise many questions. A group ...
31 facts about Battle of Thermopylae
31 facts about Battle of Thermopylae
Stand to gain
One of the most famous invasions in the history of the ancient world. In the narrow isthmus of Thermopylae, the proud Spartans put up a fierce resista ...
25 facts about Troy
25 facts about Troy
A forgotten ancient city returned to history from mythology
Troy is a famous ancient city, best known for the war described by Homer.  There were many settlements in its area, which fell into decline only to be ...
21 facts about Mali Empire
21 facts about Mali Empire
The medieval state of the Mandé peoples
The origins of Mali's empire date back to the early 13th century, when the country's first ruler won a victory at the Battle of Kuolikoro and took con ...
15 facts about Black death
15 facts about Black death
The Great Plague
Although the disease produced black necrotic tissue, people living at the time of the pandemic referred to it as "the great plague," "the great scourg ...
25 facts about Medieval world
25 facts about Medieval world
Despite appearances, it was a colorful and dynamic period of world history
Many people imagine the Middle Ages as a time of total asceticism, lack of education and extreme piety. In reality, it was a time of political intrigu ...
19 facts about Masada
19 facts about Masada
Masada is Israel's Thermopylae, a symbol of heroic resistance to the very end
The ancient fortress located on the Dead Sea was the site of bloody battles between Jewish insurgents and the Romans. The Zealots' attitude in defendi ...
32 facts about Jamestown
32 facts about Jamestown
The first permanent British colony in New World
Although it has not been the first attempt to establish a colony in North America, Jamestown is the first permanent British settlement in the present ...
26 facts about Mohenjo-daro
26 facts about Mohenjo-daro
The mound of the dead men
More than five thousand years ago, in the Indus Valley (now Pakistan), there was a mysterious civilization, called the Indus Civilization. It was one ...
18 facts about ancient Sumer
18 facts about ancient Sumer
The mysterious people of antiquity
We know little about them, but what we have established makes you dizzy. A people of unknown origin who created a civilization that was the cradle of ...
20 facts about Axum Empire
20 facts about Axum Empire
One of the most advanced ancient civilizations
The Axum Empire was one of the most remarkable powers of the ancient world. Located in the northern part of modern Ethiopia and Eritrea, it once domin ...