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Iron Maiden have written songs about dinosaurs, the Second World War and many, many things in between. So, here’s the history of Planet Earth as told through the metal legends’ lyrics.

Near the end of every year ... Babylonian calendar, said Dr. Louisa McKenzie, an art historian, journalist and associate fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, via email. The ancient city ...

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For all Earth’s roughly 4.5 billion year history, volcanic eruptions ... Alaska spewed so much sulphur into the air that Ancient Greek and Roman sources documented that harvests failed and ...

By today’s terminology, Athanasius of Alexandria might be called a “boy genius” or a prodigy. But back in 325 A.D., in his ...