The people of ancient Rome didn’t have access to modern science, but they still developed complex – and incredibly intuitive ...

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Turi King and Alex J Kay have married genetics with history to study a sample of DNA from Adolf Hitler – and, as they reveal, ...

In the aftermath of the American Civil War, a grieving nation turned towards spiritualism in the hope of seeing the dead once ...

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From ritual parades to blood-soaked duels, explore a single day in the life (and death) of the most brutal entertainment in ...

Giuseppe Garibaldi’s courage and charisma made him a hero of Italian unification in the 19th century. Here’s how he became a ...

The crusades were a centuries-long sequence of era-defining medieval holy wars that transformed dynamics of power and religious ideas across Europe and the Middle East. Those are two of the questions ...

Explore how modern Britons sought signs of divine order in a collapsing world – from searching snails’ shells to eating moles ...

In a kingdom recently divided by faith, Elizabeth I’s government turned to espionage to defend the Protestant crown. This is how her spymasters built a culture of fear that reshaped England’s religiou ...