The Angel Makers of Nagyrév

Aug 1, 2022

About sixty miles southeast of Budapest, on the River Tisza, lies a quiet little village with a horrible past. It was here in Nagyrev, a cen...

Australia’s First Tour of England in 1868 Was Made by an Aboriginal Cricket Team

Jul 29, 2022

Sports has been an important way to bridge different cultures. For the aboriginal Australians and their colonial settlers, it was cricket. ...

Painless Parker: The Showman Dentist

Jul 27, 2022

At the Temple University's dental museum in Philadelphia, there is a small section dedicated to one of the most notorious dentist of Ame...

The Band of Holes

Jul 25, 2022

In Peru’s Pisco Valley, there is a strange alignment of thousands of shallow pits. The pits are arranged in a narrow band about 14 to 20 met...

The Diary of Merer: A 4,500-Year-Old Papyrus That Details The Construction of The Great Pyramid

Jul 22, 2022

The Great Pyramids of Giza has been one of the world’s greatest enigmas—how did an ancient society build such massive monuments without the ...

Dr. Gustav Zander's Victorian-Era Exercise Machines

Jul 20, 2022

Dr. Gustav Zander's institute in Stockholm, founded in 1865, could be called the world’s first gym. It was equipped with twenty-seven cu...

Princess Caraboo: The Imposter That Fooled a Nation

Jul 19, 2022

On 3 April 1817, a mysterious woman in her mid-twenties walked into the small English village of Almondsbury in Gloucestershire. She was dre...

Grace Darling's Daring Rescue of Shipwreck Survivors

Jul 18, 2022

In 1838, a young woman pulled off a heroic rescue saving several survivors from a wrecked merchant ship off the coast of Northumberland in n...

Gol Gumbaz: The Taj Mahal of South India

Jul 8, 2022

In the city of Bijapur, in the south Indian state of Karnataka, stands one of the grandest royal tombs to be ever constructed in India. Aptl...

Code of Ur-Nammu: The Oldest Law in History

Jul 7, 2022

Some of the earliest legal codes concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment were formulated in the ancient Middle East. The Sumeria...