March 2018 (Issue 53)

Expert articles from the March 2018 issue of BBC History Revealed Magazine

Illustration of a man without a head, but with his face on his chest. This is one of many creatures Sir John Mandeville claimed to have met on his travels

A knight’s (tall) tale: why medieval traveller Sir John Mandeville was more popular than Marco Polo

Image depicting Roman general Germanicus oversing the burial of the bones of Romans killed in the battle of Teutoburg Forest

What was the Roman Empire’s greatest defeat? It might be Teutoburg Forest in AD 9

Photo of JFK in the motorcade

Who killed JFK? The case that can never be closed