Ancient History Facts You Definitely Did not Learn In School #4

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As many as 400,000 people died during the construction of the Great Wall of China in the third century B.C. Many of these workers were convicts and soldiers, and were buried within the wall itself. The wall has been in various states of disrepair and fortification ever since, and the wall as it stands today was re-constructed mainly during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).

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The swastika was a symbol of spirituality and good fortune across the ancient world. It has been found among hundreds of the cultures around the world; carved onto 30,000-year-old mammoth tusks, found on Neolithic Serbian tablets, and used during the period of Roman Christianity. The once-positive symbol was perverted by the anti-Semite assistant of a German businessman-turned-archaeologist named [Heinrich Schliemann] in 1871, and the rest is unfortunate history.