Every story, every era. Researched and retold.
Medieval
The last great palace of Muslim Spain, built by the Nasrids of Granada and lost in 1492. A monument of light, water and calligraphy - patched, scarred and rescued from ruin by the Romantics.
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Medieval
An illiterate teenager broke the siege of Orleans, saw a king crowned, and was burned as a heretic before she turned twenty. Her trial transcript lets us hear her answer back.
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Ancient
A black pillar in the Louvre carries 282 laws carved by a Babylonian king nearly 4,000 years ago - the famous 'eye for an eye'. But was it really the first law code, or even a working one?
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Ancient
Discovered by well-diggers in 1974, thousands of clay soldiers guard the tomb of China's first emperor. The real story is stranger than the postcard - and most of the tomb is still sealed.
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Modern
A broken slab of granite, found by French soldiers in 1799, held the same text in Greek and in two Egyptian scripts - and it took a 23-year race between two rival geniuses to use it to finally read the hieroglyphs that had been silent for over a thousand years.
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Ancient
Not one wall but many, built and rebuilt over 2,000 years - and no, you can't see it from space with the naked eye. The real story of the Great Wall is stranger and grander than the myths.
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Mythology
Osiris murdered and reborn, the heart weighed against a feather, a sun that dies and rises each day - the myths of ancient Egypt were a 3,000-year meditation on death, order, and what comes after.
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Mythology
Camelot, Excalibur and the Round Table are medieval inventions - but was there a real war-leader at the bottom of it all? Untangling the history behind Britain's most famous king.
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Modern
From Flight 19 to the lost USS Cyclops, the Bermuda Triangle has a fearsome reputation. But insurers and coast guards find nothing unusual there. Here's what the evidence actually shows.
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Modern
The largest ship in the world sank on her maiden voyage in 1912, killing about 1,500. Here's how myth and reality diverge, why the lifeboats were legal, and what actually changed afterward.
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Medieval
They raided Lindisfarne, traded with Baghdad and reached America five centuries before Columbus. The real Vikings were far stranger and more far-ranging than the horned-helmet myth suggests.
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Medieval
They were monks, soldiers and bankers all at once, until a broke and ruthless king destroyed them on Friday the 13th. The real Templar story needs no conspiracy theories.
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