History Uncovered

One of WWE's most iconic wrestlers of the early 2000s, Chris Benoit died by suicide in 2007 after he strangled his wife to death and suffocated his young son at his home.

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Since it was rediscovered in 1912, scholars have been trying to decode the unknown script and bizarre illustrations inside the 15th-century Voynich Manuscript — but to this day, nobody knows exactly what the book is about.

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Over the centuries, archaeologists have come across countless incredible relics that bring humanity’s past to life: King Tut’s sarcophagus, the bodies of Pompeii, intricate silver and gold llama figurines crafted by the Inca. But some of even the most famous artifacts to ever be unearthed simply don’t seem to match the time, place, or context in which they were found.

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On December 16, 1773, American colonists protested the
British Parliament's tax on tea by throwing British tea into Boston
Harbor — and changed history.

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On July 17, 1918, the last Czar of Russia Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children were brutally murdered by communist revolutionaries known as the Bolsheviks. Though the Bolsheviks claimed to have murdered the entire family, their bodies had been so marred and later buried in unmarked graves that many speculated the youngest daughter of the five Romanov children, Anastasia, had escaped.

It would be nearly a century following her execution that the mystery surrounding Anastasia Romanov would be finally allowed to rest.

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