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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 Master Builders of Medieval Europe

One of the greatest mysteries of the medieval period lies in the castles that were supposedly built during this time—structures with four-foot-thick walls that...

From Scythia to Sovereignty

The story of the Alans doesn’t begin in Europe. It begins deep in the windswept steppe, under the wide sky that once belonged to...

The Alans in Britain: Tracing the Aryan Riders of the Roman Frontier

British history, as we know it, wasn’t built in isolation. Beneath the familiar surface—Romans, Celts, Saxons—there are traces of something older. A movement of...

The Mongol Empire Was a Myth Invented In 1908

The Mongol Empire was a myth invented in 1908 by a Mongol Nationalist named Baavuday Tsend Gun. The book The Secret History of the Mongols...

Turgot’s Map – 1739 Detailed Aerial View

Plan of Paris, known as Turgot's Map - 1739 Michel-Étienne Turgot (1690-1751), at the head of the Parisian municipality as provost of merchants, decided to...

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The Ingenious Creator of the Hereford Mappa Mundi

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Airship NORGE: The First to Conquer the North Pole

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The Garden of Eden: A Paradise Lost

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