Every story, every era. Researched and retold.
Ancient
Two hikers found a body in the ice in 1991 and assumed it was a lost climber. It took ten more years for anyone to notice the arrowhead in his back.
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Ancient
A gallery grave north of Paris was used for a thousand years. Ancient DNA just revealed the people using it in its final centuries were not related to the ones who built it.
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Ancient
In a Surrey water meadow, three weeks of digging confirmed a complete Roman bath house — standing on ground already old, where hunter-gatherers had knapped flint by the same spring ten thousand years before Rome arrived.
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Mythology
Buried inside one of the largest pyramids in the Americas, a two-thousand-year-old painting may be the earliest image ever found of the Maya Hero Twins — hidden in a cave built on purpose, a thousand years before anyone wrote their story down.
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Medieval
Five hundred years ago, an exiled prince with a barricade of farm carts and a handful of Ottoman gunners destroyed an army five times his size in a single morning — and founded an empire that ruled India for three centuries.
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Ancient
In a Roman-era tomb at Oxyrhynchus, archaeologists found a mummy wrapped with a fragment of the Iliad instead of a magic spell — the first literary text ever found in this ritual position, and a clue to how deeply Homer ran in ancient Egypt.
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Medieval
A frozen lake at 5,000 metres in the Himalayas holds the bones of hundreds of people. Ancient DNA revealed they didn't all die together — or even in the same century.
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Ancient
Around 1200 BCE the first great connected civilisation on Earth burned to the ground - not one kingdom but a whole international world, all at once. Three thousand years later, we still cannot agree on who, or what, killed the Bronze Age.
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Ancient
People once swam where there is now only sand. Beneath the world's greatest desert lie two lost worlds - a green Sahara full of prehistoric life, and the Garamantes, who engineered a kingdom on fossil water until it ran dry.
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Modern
The rocket that took America to the Moon had a shadow reaching back into the Third Reich. How a secret US programme spirited 1,600 German scientists - some of them former Nazis - across the Atlantic, and the moral debt that came bundled with them.
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Mythology
Spinning discs that never miss, tridents that hold up the universe, and god-given missiles that read like weapons of mass destruction. A clear guide to the divine astras and shastras of Hindu mythology - what they were, who wielded them, and what they meant.
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Ancient
More than two thousand years ago, an Indian surgeon was rebuilding severed noses with flaps of living skin, removing cataracts, and training his students on melons before they ever touched a patient. The story of Sushruta - and how his knowledge reached modern operating tables.
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