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Secret lives of ancient Egyptians revealed by CT scans of mummies

Picture of Chrysippus of Soli

Q&AHas anyone ever died of laughter?

Hitler’s jazz band: how the Nazis used swing as propaganda

17th-century 'Great British Bake Off' recipes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Top five hauntings in history

The bloody world of Georgian female boxing

10 astronomers you’ve (probably) never heard of

An illustration of a Tudor street

“Mooke, fylthe and other vyle things”: Tudor dirt and dung

7 Victorian jokes have been given a modern twist - and they're hilarious

The Stygian Lake in the Fifth Circle of Hell from from Dante’s epic poem 'The Inferno'. The phrase "Paint the town red" may originate from the sentence in the poem "we are they who painted the world scarlet with sins". (Photo by Getty Images)

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Paint the town red’?

The decline of the pub: what can we learn from history?

Revealed: the secrets of the Tudor cross-dressers

Incent's House as it stands today on the Berkhamsted High Street. (Creative Commons)

The hunt for the Tudor hitman

For sale: 7 amazing historical homes owned by Henry VIII, Charles II and Winnie the Pooh

A mosaic depicting the poet Virgil writing the Aeneid. (Photo By DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

How to succeed in Ancient Rome

Victorian burials and the history of psychology. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Top 10 strange history stories

D-Day landings and the original singing dog: top 10 British Pathé videos

An Egyptian mummy receiving a CT scan

Looking inside ancient Egyptian mummies

BBC History Magazine

Top 10 bizarre photo galleries

Historical sex objects to feature in classrooms

1,138: The number of London children recorded as dying of “teeth” in 1685. (Illustration: James Albon for BBC History Magazine)

History’s most surprising statistics

Revealed: how the Georgians taught us to diet 300 years ago

Historian Miles Russell. (Photography by Philip Hartley for BBC History Magazine)

History explorerExtravagance in Roman Britain: a visit to Fishbourne Roman Palace. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Becca Thorne.

Deadly beasts of Tudor England

Self-portraits: How people took selfies in the past

Ye olde travel guide: Caracas 1783. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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First ever kangaroo and dingo paintings to remain in UK

Top 5 Jane Austen recipes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AWho was the last Groom of the Stool?