The U.S. officially recognizes the Armenian Genocide, divers uncover a sunken Swiss village, and researchers discover Viking artifacts in an Icelandic cave.
A Century After 1.5 Million Were Killed, The U.S. Officially Acknowledges The Armenian Genocide
Wikimedia CommonsArmenian leader Vahan Papazian look out over the clay of the bushed at Deir ez - Zor .
In 1943 , in the thick of the Holocaust , Polish legal learner Raphael Lemkin strike the word “ genocide ” to describe what the Ottomans had done to the Armenians between 1915 and 1917 . Though it remain both wide overtop and outright denied to this sidereal day , the Turks and Ottomans killed 1.5 million Armenians during World War I.
Today , just 30 of the world ’s approximately 200 independent state make out theArmenian Genocide , with the United Kingdom and Israel among those that do not . But now , the U.S. has finally acknowledged this horrid chapter in modern account .
Wikimedia CommonsArmenian leader Vahan Papazian looks out over the remains of the dead at Deir ez-Zor.
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Divers Discover A 3,000-Year-Old Sunken Bronze Age Village Beneath A Swiss Lake
Wikimedia CommonsLake Lucerne
For one C , Switzerland ’s Lake Lucerne conceal a secret . Beneath a bed of clay and 13 foot of spark blue piddle , a sunken Bronze Age village lay restfully forgotten — until now .
The Greenwich Village , discovered by underwater archeologists assisting with the installation of a line , completely rewrites Lucerne ’s chronicle . It hint that the part was settled much earlier than previously thought .
Wikimedia CommonsLake Lucerne
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Viking Sacrificial Cave Intended To Ward Off The Apocalypse Discovered In Iceland
Wikimedia CommonsOne of the many staggering tunnel formed by lava in Surtshellir Cave .
Researchers in Iceland late unearthed a trove of rare Middle Eastern artifacts go out back 1,000 years near a since - torpid volcano . Most noteworthy was a Isidor Feinstein Stone , gravy boat - shaped social system they think the Vikings link with Ragnarök — a world - ending issue that would see their gods killed and humans wiped out in a perfervid apocalypse .
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Wikimedia CommonsOne of the many staggering tunnels formed by lava in Surtshellir Cave.
