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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 Works of Old Men in the Jordanian Black Desert
We were delighted to receive a contact from Mrs Sánchez and her team who are currently recruiting to expand their team of experts to...
The Great Resets: How Civilizations Are Unmade
Civilizations do not simply fall. The ones that fall leave traces: ruins assigned to them, collapse narratives written by whoever came next, a record...
Older Than the Date on the Door
There is a version of the buried buildings argument that treats submersion as metaphor, as a way of describing how older architectural traditions were...
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Gladiators are Fiction: Colosseums are Enormous Power Plants (Part 1)
Is it possible that, at some point in the...
The Ingenious Creator of the Hereford Mappa Mundi
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is one of the most...
Airship NORGE: The First to Conquer the North Pole
In the annals of exploration, few achievements stand as...

