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Historiography
Historians Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst reexamine the pivotal conflict from a grassroots perspective.
The Gospels aren’t historical biographies but genre-defining works that blend myth, theology, and a promise of hope.
A sober look at a wild conspiracy theory that argues the Middle Ages never happened.
Discover how the threads of myth, legend, and artistry have been woven together by storytellers to craft history.
Historians have been able to piece together a clear picture of how the average Roman citizen spent their waking hours.
Nero’s reputation as one of the most malevolent emperors in Roman history might be partly slander.
Today, many Maya sites are polluted with toxic levels of mercury. The contamination likely originated from cinnabar paints and art.
This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
Seneca thought the use of ice was a "true fever of the most malignant kind."
Long before Christopher and Magellan, ancient explorers voyaged into the unknown and brought home extraordinary tales.
Unlike other world rulers, Genghis Khan was laid to rest not inside an elaborate mausoleum but an unmarked grave somewhere in Mongolia. Maybe.
Experimental archaeology is the practice of recreating past events using knowledge and tools available at the time. Sometimes, it involves elephants.
Were Hitler’s SS henchmen willing executioners fueled by racial propaganda or mindless servants vying for promotions?
In theory, history is the sum of everything that ever happened; in practice, it’s a story we tell ourselves to make sense of and justify our actions in the present.
Many first-hand accounts from the golden age of piracy were grossly embellished, meaning it's extremely difficult to separate Blackbeard the legend from Edward Thatch the person.