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Conspiracy Did someone else write the plays of William Shakespeare?

A composite image showing an astronaut on the moon against a purple sky.

Conspiracy Did NASA fake the Moon landing?

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Conspiracy Did Anastasia survive the massacre of the Romanovs?

A painting by Dutch artist Hendrick Danckerts shows Charles II’s gardener, John Rose, presenting the king with a pineapple

General History

Pineapples, tulips and follies: 10 status symbols from history

A montage of Adolf Hitler and a purple starry sky

Second World War

Conspiracy Did Hitler escape from his bunker and live in Argentina after WW2?

Ancient Egyptian pyramids against a purple starry sky

Conspiracy Were the pyramids built by aliens?

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City of fur and feather: the animals of medieval London

Clinic at the School of Dentistry, Paris, 1892. A female student treating a patient under supervision. (Photo by Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images)

General History

Q&A What are the roots of dentistry?

A medieval illustration showing a doctor bleeding a patient

General History

A history of medicine 14 surprising facts

Egyptologist Howard Carter crouches near the golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun's remains

Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamun: was the tomb really cursed?

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Illustration showing woman receiving a caesarean section

General History

Q&A What are the origins of the caesarean section?

Illustration by @GlenMcIllustration

Q&A Which king thought he was made of glass

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General ancient history

Dragons From mythological beasts of history to the firebreathers of fantasy

A real and a virtual Tycho Brahe surveys the heavens next to his mural quadrant in the frontispiece to ‘Machines of the New Astronomy’. (Photo by DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI via Getty Images)

A history of science in 10½ objects