Medieval Myth Busting - Arrows vs Armour 3, using historically accurate reproductions from 1450
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The latrine disaster in Erfurt
24 votes -
How we unlocked the secrets of Denmark's oldest plank boat – with the help of an ancient fingerprint
7 votes -
This road goes straight through a major prehistoric cave
10 votes -
Letters from an American November 26, 2025 - The historical origin of the US Federal Thanksgiving holiday
13 votes -
Weird Weapons - The Mangual, or two handed chain flail. Used extensively in Spain and Portugal from around 1400 -1650.
7 votes -
The Florentine Diamond resurfaces after 100 years in hiding. Legendary jewel of the Habsburgs not seen since 1919 and thought lost, has actually been safe in a Canadian bank for decades. (gifted link)
29 votes -
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
9 votes -
Four strange places to see London’s Roman wall
14 votes -
“The Edmund Fitzgerald - First divers on the Fitz”
13 votes -
Hermann and Albert Göring: Two very different brothers
19 votes -
The almost forgotten Japanese-American truce at Aka
20 votes -
Road map of the Roman Empire
18 votes -
The real truth about the Tudor succession comes to light
17 votes -
Swedish fisherman digging for worms stumbles upon cache of silver coins, beads, rings and pendants dating to the 12th century
36 votes -
Can a professional javelin thrower master this ancient weapon (atlatl)?
11 votes -
Doomsday scoreboard
23 votes -
This is not a ruined cottage | The Druridge Bay ruin
10 votes -
How the Dutch deleted the sea... and got rich! | Map Men
24 votes -
The entire history of cat memes
11 votes -
What it takes to be a revolutionary war enactor
12 votes -
How America nearly forged a different path in 1916
19 votes -
How Rockefeller and his partners built Standard Oil
9 votes -
Lighthouse of Alexandria rises again: giant blocks resurface after 2,000 years
25 votes -
Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
11 votes -
Ancient Historian reviews Monty Python's Life of Brian | Deep Dives
9 votes -
The neo-Victorian neo-nazi lesbian BDSM cult that made video games
33 votes -
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Peggy Bowditch’s interview
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For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo
16 votes