The Ghost of Columbus and the Impossible Geometry of the Piri Reis Map
In 1929, while renovating the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, a theologian discovered a fragment of gazelle skin that would rewrite the history of...
Lost Ancient Automatic Weapon Fired at Pompeii?
AVERSA, ITALY—The polybolos has long been a legendary weapon of Roman military might, both in the sense that it could inflict tremendous damage and...
Tracking Neanderthal Turtle Hunters
NEUMARK-NORD, GERMANY—A new analysis of turtle shell fragments unearthed at the Paleolithic site of Neumark-Nord in the German state of...
Sacred Water Complex Unearthed in North Sinai
Model Homes March/April 2026 LOCATION: Thebes, Egypt DATES: Ca. 1981–1975 b.c. Read Article The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund...
History's Greatest Dishes: season 1
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History's Greatest Dishes: Blancmange
Welcome to History's Greatest Dishes – the series from HistoryExtra in which food historian Annie Gray chats with Emily Briffett about the origins...
England's mistress: how Nell Gwyn won the heart of Charles II – and became a political powerhouse
On a first date with the king of England, you might reasonably expect him to pay the bill. Yet Nell Gwyn’s relationship with Charles II started as...
Royal women, with Professor Kate Williams
Join Professor Kate Williams for a six-part HistoryExtra series uncovering the little-known stories behind some of history’s most famous...
Think you know everything about the Tudors? Here's 15 facts that will prove you wrong
1. The Tudors weren’t known as the TudorsAlthough we use ‘Tudor’ as a nifty shorthand for both the era and the dynasty, it wasn’t used at the time...
This morbid Viking Age death pit is more mystifying than it first seemed – here’s why
Violence was a defining feature of 9th-century Anglo-Saxon England.This was a period of aggressive Viking invasions, violent rivalry between...
The rise of Alfred the Great
As the Viking Great Heathen Army refused to leave Anglo-Saxon England, the pressure mounted on the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to respond, placing the...
The Huns terrorised Rome's frontiers – but wanted to keep the ancient empire alive
To the Romans of the late 4th and 5th centuries AD, the threat posed by the Huns was akin to a nightmare made real.They were lightning fast,...
Coin Found in Chile Accords with Account of Spanish Colony's Foundation
SANTIAGO, CHILE—Live Science reports that a sixteenth-century Spanish silver coin has been discovered in southern Chile at the site of Ciudad del...
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