June 2019 (Issue 69)

Expert articles from the June 2019 issue of BBC History Revealed Magazine

An open Bible on an altar

General ancient history

A history of the Bible: who wrote it and when?

Panorama of Machu Picchu

The last days of the Incas

The Lindisfarne Stone showing viking warriors

Your guide to the Viking raid of Lindisfarne in AD 793

Allied troops on D-Day landing crafts

Second World War

D-Day: the WW2 battle through the eyes of the men who were there

Through MK ULtra's experiments, often performed on unwitting test subjects, the CIA hoped to make 'brainwashing' real. (Image by RF CREATIVE/Getty Images)

MK Ultra: the secrets of the CIA’s mind-control programme

Charlton Hetson races a chariot in Ben-Hur

Wacky races: 10 weird and wonderful contests through history

Lucrezia Borgia with her father Pope Alexander VI

Lucrezia Borgia: is her bad reputation deserved?