Strange Photos From History That You've Never Seen

The More You Know

• Alexander the Great was accidentally buried alive. Scientists believe Alexander suffered from a neurological disorder called Guillain-Barré Syndrome. They believe that when he died he was actually just paralyzed and mentally aware!
• Between 1900 and 1920, tug of war was an Olympic event.
• Cleopatra was fluent in 9 languages. They were Ancient Greek, Ancient Iranian, Ancient Parthian, Syriac, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Arabic and Troglodyte.
• Ancient Greeks came up with the idea of cyclops after they found a fossil of a mammoth, and had no idea what it was.