The Great Conservatory of Chatsworth

Mar 31, 2022

Before Joseph Paxton built the magnificent edifice of glass and iron, the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, he built an enorm...

Can You Solve The Shugborough Code?

Mar 31, 2022

From the Caesar Shift of ancient times to a Nazi coding device called the Enigma Machine, the world before us left its mark in keys and code...

Scribonius Longus, The Roman Physician Who Used Electricity as a Treatment

Mar 30, 2022

Scribonius Longus (Latin Scribonius Largus ) was a 1st century AD Roman physician who served at the court of Emperor Claudius (41-54 AD) an...

Alberto Santos-Dumont: The Brazilian Aviation Pioneer

Mar 29, 2022

The Wright brothers are generally considered to be the inventors of flight, but in Brazil, it is their son of the soil Alberto Santos-Dumont...

The Mysterious Legacy of The Poe Toaster

Mar 28, 2022

The macabre attraction of Edgar Allen Poe and his works has reached far and wide over centuries. But the Poe Toaster is a testament to just ...

The Battle of The Eclipse

Mar 25, 2022

Picture this: two raging kings have been at war for five years now. Lives have been lost, battles have been fought, and in the current momen...

‘Meldeman Plan’: The First Siege of Vienna

Mar 25, 2022

One of the oldest topographical maps of Vienna is the so-called “Meldeman-Plan’’ published by the Austrian painter and printer Nikolaus Meld...

The Miraculous Survival of Phineas Gage

Mar 24, 2022

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Except in the case of Phineas Gage, who became a lot of things but strong after an accident that o...

Did an Ancient Persian Queen Suffer From Breast Cancer?

Mar 23, 2022

In Histories , written in the 5th century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus tells the story of Atossa, the queen of Persia, who was struck b...

What the Megaliths of Jharkhand Reveal About Tribal India

Mar 23, 2022

In 2016, a cluster of over 300 megaliths were discovered under a maze of shrubs and garbage near Ranchi. The tombstones of Yamuna Nagar had ...