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Sarcophagus with relief depicting the Calydonian boar hunt, Campanian amphitheatre, Italy, 1st-2nd century AD. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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Battle of Culloden. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The gruesome remains of prehistoric murder victims uncovered in Europe’s bogs