Year: 2022

The Mission to Restore Ancient Rome’s Colosseum

History Two thousand years after it was built, the Colosseum is in dire need of repair; a look at how[…]

History Long before the first Europeans set foot on American soil, the native people who lived there had spent centuries[…]

History For a few dozen Alaskan Iñupiat natives, it is possible to see Russia from their house. Just below the[…]

History Florian Hartung and Dirk Pohlmann have reconstructed a previously unknown dimension of the collaboration between Nazis and the CIA[…]

History Archaeologist Agnes Hsu-Tang, director of New York-based China Institute, goes on a quest to answer one of ancient China’s[…]

Medieval History Most of us have burned ourselves at one time or another, perhaps on a stove or on a[…]

Medieval History Death by pressing or crushing has been around for centuries, although the method used has varied greatly from[…]

Medieval History As a way of saying thank you for 10,000 subscribers (wow!), here is a compilation of some of[…]

Medieval History In the Middle Ages, the barber-surgeon became the poor-man’s go to doctor. Someone to deal with the more[…]

Medieval History He was the right-hand man of Joan of Arc and the single richest and most powerful nobleman of[…]