In March 2025, claims circulated that a vast underground city had long sat hidden under the Giza pyramids. What does the ...

In 1587, an English expedition set out to colonise Roanoke Island on the eastern coast of North America…only for the colonists to vanish without trace. What happened?

The famous Borgia family produced two popes, Callixtus III (1378-1458) and Alexander VI (1431-1503), Lucrezia (1480-1519), a duchess famed for her beauty and learning, and Cesare (1475-1507), a ...

One Small Step For Pac-Man, One Giant Leap For Pac-Man-KindHappy birthday to Pac-Man, who was first released in Japan on this day in 1980. Or should I say ‘Puck Man’ which was the character’s original ...

How did Sarah Forbes Bonetta escape slavery in Africa, reach England and become a beloved goddaughter of Queen Victoria?

With the Axis in the ascendancy in North Africa and optimistic of taking the Suez canal, the battles of El Alamein were ...

Josef Mengele carried out abhorrent experiments on thousands of inmates at Auschwitz. Learn more about the Angel of Death in ...

Did you know that our days of the week are named after gods worshipped by Vikings? The great raven god Odin, otherwise known as Woden, gives us Wednesday (literally, Woden’s Day). Meanwhile, Tuesday ...

American-born Robert Prevost was elected as the 267th pope in history and chose to be known as Pope Leo XIV. But who is he ...

After hiding treasure valued at $2 million somewhere in the American wilderness, former art dealer Forrest Fenn sparked off a ...

In the 1930s, Heinrich Himmler was on the lookout for something suitably grand and impressive to house a retreat and training school for SS members. After failing to negotiate the lease on a castle ...

Ambition, displacement and architectural innovation. These ideas take centre stage in the Oscar-nominated film The Brutalist. The most intriguing part? László Tóth, brought to life by Academy ...