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How many British archeologists damaged or stole artifacts over the 19th and 20th centuries?

In the 1890’s, British invaders stole some 4,000 sculptures from the Kingdom of Benin (Nigeria).

Howard Carter destroyed the remains of Tutankhamun by pouring boiling water over the mummy and tearing him from his coffin.

William Hawley ruined the…[Read more]

Why are there so any examples of swords that are single edged rather than double edged? If the saying is true and 2 is better than 1, why would warriors opt for single edge weapons over double edged?

I’m thinking specifically of officers’ sabres, simitars and even katanas.

The story is as follows. An oracle declares that the next man to drive an ox cart into the city of Telmissus is to become the king. Gordias went from peasant farmer to king and dedicated his oxcart to the gods by tying it to a post with a complex knot that was “several knots all so tightly entangled that it was impossible to see how they were…[Read more]

In the US, people seem to act like George Washington was an excellent general, but how did he compare to the British from a strategic standpoint?

Did he win the Revolution with his abilities or because of the help from the French and the failures of the British?