Weird and wonderful history

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 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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)

Q&A What are the roots of dentistry? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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Pod Victoria Shepherd WL

Glass men & killer doubles: a history of delusions . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration showing woman receiving a caesarean section

General History

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

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Q&A Which king thought he was made of glass

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Saint Michael and the DragonSaint Michael and the Dragon

Dragons From mythological beasts of history to the firebreathers of fantasy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1400 farmer ploughing a field.

6 of the most catastrophic weather events in British history

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Pod Paul Fischer WL

The vanishing inventor . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Newspaper front page with headline 'Gen. Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer'

Why we should remember The Roswell Incident . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Woman wearing a bikini

Why we should remember The launch of the swimsuit that scandalised the world

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Max Schreck took the title role in the 1922 German silent film 'Nosferatu', inspired by Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'. The film enjoys a cult following. (Photo by ullstein picture / ullstein picture via Getty Images)

“Ghoul-like beyond nightmare dream, they were the living dead”: belief in Vampires through history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.