Private Study Rooms of Famous People [27 Pics]
[nextpage title=”next” ] Get a closer look at private study rooms of Charles Darwin, Claude Monet, Theodore Roosevelt, Sigmund Freud, Steve Jobs, Thomas A. Edison and other famous people. Above photo: Charles Robert Darwin, FRS was an English naturalist....
King Leonidas of Sparta and the Legendary Battle of the 300 at Thermopylae
Zack Snyder’s 2007 fantasy historical film, 300, has probably made the Battle of Thermopylae one of the most famous battles of the ancient world. It may be pointed out, though, that the film has more fantasy than history in it. Most people would be aware that the...
Varna Man and the Wealthiest Grave of the 5th Millennium BC
In the 1970s, archaeologists in Bulgaria stumbled upon a vast Copper Age necropolis from the 5th millennium BC containing the oldest golden artifacts ever discovered near the modern-day city of Varna. But it was not until they reached grave 43 that they realized the...
The Longest Poem Ever Written: Shahnameh – The Epic Book of Kings
In 977 AD, a Persian poet named Ferdowsi began on a grandiose poetic journey that would take him 33 years to complete. He used ancient Persian tales which had been told from generation to generation for several millennia as the source for writing his poems about epic...


