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Athelstan: King of Malmesbury and the Forgotten Library

BEFORE THE CANON IV In the centre of Malmesbury, in...

Lake Nemi: The Floating Palaces of Diana’s Mirror

On 15 July 1535, a Bolognese soldier and engineer...

The Ancient Finds of America: Too Deep to Be a Joke

Three men, working three different rigs across three different...

Aether: The 1729 Debate Over What Fills the Heavens

Editorial Note The entry below ran as two installments of...

The Assumption of the Virgin by Francesco Botticini

This vast vision of heaven and earth was created for the funeral chapel of Florentine apothecary, writer, and politician Matteo Palmieri, who died in...

The Vikings Weren’t First—The Lost History of Norse America

In the soil of Newfoundland, a settlement lay buried for nearly a thousand years. When archaeologists uncovered it in the 1960s, it confirmed something...

The Timurid Empire

Timur, was a 14th Century Turko-Mongol military leader who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia, becoming the...

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