Tag: murder
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How a teenage emperor called Elagabalus shattered Rome’s deepest taboos, drowned their hopes and ignited their anger, inspiring stories of murder, decadence, and a banquet of deadly roses that smothered his guests to death. The Ceiling Is Moving A single rose petal floats down, brushing the cheek of a senator who cannot move. He was…
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She was the last face the living saw. The Angel of Death wasn’t a priestess or a murderer; she was the technician of death. Among the Rus’ people, Viking traders who settled along the great rivers of Eastern Europe in the tenth century, this woman was known simply as the Angel of Death. But who…
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With Tollund Man, his eyes are closed as if in sleep, his lips opened as if about to speak. The stubble on his chin looks fresh, like it had grown just days ago. But this man has been dead for over 2,000 years—and someone had murdered him. On May 6, 1950, two brothers were cutting…
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Seven thousand years ago, in what is now Southwest Germany, a settlement began to take shape. This was no ordinary Linear Pottery culture village of bustling longhouses and peaceful farmers. Beneath its soil, the bones of the dead would one day reveal chilling warnings of an ancient darkness. For this village, the future would be…
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Deep beneath the hills of northern Spain lies a cave called La Sima de los Huesos—the Pit of Bones. In this darkness, archaeologists uncovered a stark truth about humanity: evidence that violence, cruelty, and murder have been with us from the very beginning. This isn’t just a prehistoric grave—it stands as the world’s oldest crime…