Yes, there are two famous Pantheons that you can visit in Europe — one in Paris and one in Rome — but they were both constructed for very different reasons, and were built hundreds of years apart.
Read MoreBefore European Bus Tours: The History of The 16th Century Grand Tour of Europe
What is the Grand Tour?
Long before Contiki Tour busses started carting tourists around Europe at breakneck speed — beginning in the late sixteenth century to be exact — young aristocrats from England, Germany, Scandinavia, and America started travelling to Paris, Venice, Florence and Rome as a way to round out their classical educations. This practice came to be known at the Grand Tour of Europe.
Read MoreLion City: The Chinese "Atlantis" Preserved Under Water For More Than 50 Years!
About 130 feet under Qiandao Lake in China sits a perfectly preserved city that disappeared under the water in 1959 when the valley where it sat was purposely flooded to make way for the Xin'an River Dam. Almost 300,000 people were relocated.
Read MoreWhat is the Ides of March, and Why Should I Beware of It?
Before we get to the "beware" part, let's start with the basics.
The Ideas of March, or Idus Martiae in Latin, is the day in the Roman calendar that corresponds with March 15.
Read MoreThe Watch List: Hunting Hitler
I recently started watching the eight-part mini-series Hunting Hitler on the History Channel and I am totally hooked.
The show's premise?
Answering the question: Did Hitler survive WWII?
Read MoreOne Of The Oldest Maps In The World
This ancient clay tablet is inscribed in cuneiform with a map of the countryside around the important Mesopotamian city of Nippur, now part of southeastern Iraq, south of Baghdad. Written in cuneiform, it is dated to some point in the 14th-13th century BC, making it one of the oldest known maps in the world!
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