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A knife purportedly carried by David 'Davy' Crockett during the Battle of the Alamo, photograph by Brian Reading, 2013. Crockett's knife is on display at the San Jacinto Museum of History at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site...

Native American burial mound, associated with the Cherokee nation, in the Cherokee Boulevard median of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. The plaque on the rock reads: This mound was constructed by Native Americans between A.D. 900-1100 and contains...

Tennessee Historical Commission marker along U.S. Route 41 in Adams, Tennessee, commemorating the Bell Witch legend. Photograph by Brian Stansberry, 2016.

A pair of statues thought to depict Edward I of England (r. 1272 - 1307 CE) and Eleanor of Castile (1241 - 1290 CE). The statues are part of the outside of the Lincoln Cathedral in England. They may not have originally depicted Edward I and...

Modern-day Yule bonfire in Sweden.

The Ryogoku Sumo Hall, Tokyo.

Norwich Guildhall, UK. Built in 1407-1413 CE.

Ancient Maya government was formed on the basis that rulers were thought to have been god-like, which to some might suggest one unified state. However, the consensus amongst anthropologists supports that each major Maya city remained its...

The Greek Alphabet developed from the Phoenician script at some point around the 8th century BCE. The earlier Mycenaean Linear B script, used primarily for lists and inventories, had been lost during the Greek Dark Age, and the technology...

The Greek Dark Age (c. 1200 to c. 800 BCE, overlapping with the Iron Age, c. 1200-550 BCE) is the modern-day term for the period in Greek history following the Bronze Age Collapse when the Mycenaean Civilization fell and the Linear B writing...