egypt, history

Is Ramses the Great Fake News? Looks Like It

New archaeological evidence indicates that Pharaoh Ramses II may not have been the Ramses the Great we all thought he was. The archaeological evidence is from an Egyptian excavation 200 miles east of the Libyan border. With these new findings, it has helped bust the formidable reputation of one of the country’s most famous pharaohs. ...

February 5, 2018

Troy Oakes

The Mysterious Disappearance of the Chinese Nanking Battalion

On December 10, 1939, during the horrors of the Japanese aggression against the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45), 2,988 Chinese soldiers were assigned to defend a bridge on the Yangtze River. By morning, the Chinese Nanking Battalion had simply vanished. Ready to fight The commander of the newly-arrived battalion was a ...

December 21, 2017

Troy Oakes