History has served up a whole range of grisly events. From war to sacrifice, ancient tales of times gone by have shown us some of the darkest sides of the human...
Science in the time of the Victorians was very strange indeed. Still in its infancy, the practice was very much experimental during the period, leading to a who...
Detectives as we know them today are a relatively modern phenomenon. Crime solving was once a much less accurate affair, cobbled together by mishandled evidence...
Over the course of history, cities rise and cities fall but from time to time, we lose sight of what actually happened. When a civilization disappears without a...
When it comes to unusual deaths, certain celebrities take some beating. Over the years, some of the most famous people have come to some of the most unusual dem...
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TURPAN BASIN, CHINA - Archaeologists are calling it an "extraordinary cache". They've found the body of an ancient man wrapped in...
In ancient history, there is a whole world waiting to be discovered. In architectural digs, we stumble across some of the most precious items in time, unwitting...
"All the evidence from different disciplines has come together … the genomics has clinched it." - Peter Bellwood, archaeologist, Australian National University ...
"We have a snapshot here, captured in time, with the objects as they were placed around this guy. We can look at this not from an outside perspective, but from ...
The Mayan civilization have gone down in history for their ingenuity and their mystery. Having built one of the most developed empires in the world, the Mayans ...
