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5 Family Feuds That Turned Deadly | HISTORY (opens the original)
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From medieval Italy to the mountains of Appalachia, family feuds have fueled generations of revenge, violence and bloodshed. A group portrait of the Hatfield clan, 1899. The feud between the Hatfields and McCoys is legendary, but Appalachian feuds like theirs followed a long-standing pattern—and some fatal family feuds continue today. Across centuries and continents, isolated communities, kinship groups and ambitious dynasties have built social systems around honor, retribution and the preservat
Tarot Cards Began as a Renaissance Card Game | HISTORY (opens the original)
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There was nothing supernatural about tarot cards when they first appeared. The tarot deck originally had nothing to do with fortune-telling. Tarot’s famous trumps (special cards that rank above ordinary suit cards) emerged as an innocuous addition to existing playing-card decks in 15th-century Italy and were used to play the popular game tarocchi. Only centuries later, in another country, were tarot decks and their trumps portrayed as embodiments of ancient wisdom that could be used in occultism
How the Assyrian Empire Became the First Military Superpower | HISTORY (opens the original)
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From 912 to 609 B.C., this empire became the largest the ancient Near East had ever seen. An Assyrian mural depicting a king in his chariot on display at the Iraqi Museum. More than 2,500 years after the fall of the Assyrian Empire, archaeological discoveries continue to reveal new details about its powerful kings and the grandeur of its capital. In July 2026, a rare, well-preserved inscription stone was unearthed in Iraq detailing the achievements of the powerful Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. It
What Happened Inside Ancient Rome's Public Baths? | HISTORY (opens the original)
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The baths of ancient Rome weren’t just for bathing. They were bustling civic hubs. The Romans considered their expansive bathing rituals a hallmark of civilization. Almost every Roman settlement of note throughout their vast empire boasted large public baths that townspeople could attend for the equivalent of less than a penny a day. The wealthy, meanwhile, indulged in luxurious private baths reserved for their families and friends. “What vast mass of stone, what weight of columns rises here! Ho
What Is the Oldest Known Siege? | HISTORY (opens the original)
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Evidence reveals that attackers laid siege to a city in Mesopotamia nearly 4,000 years ago. Assyrian King Sennacherib at the city of Lachish, depicted in a relief from his Great Palace in Nineveh, circa 700-680 B.C. The first cities were built partly as defenses during wars, but attackers soon developed siege tactics to overcome them. Ancient evidence of sieges includes traces of scaling ladders used to climb high city walls, battering rams to break down gates, underground tunnels to create brea
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