You’ve probably heard about most of these famous curses before, but perhaps you didn’t know how they got started.
72-year-old Efraim Zuroff has made it his life’s work to put Nazis behind bars, and he’s not done yet.
Big explosions always tend to fascinate people, but it’s the history behind ‘Tallboy’, the bomb that exploded on Tuesday afternoon in a canal near the Polish port city of Swinoujscie, that makes this one interesting.
Pompeii has become a major tourist attraction, although some people tend to take more than just their photos home with them.
Flavouring gin with juniper berries was a decision more than 2 000 years in the making, and not without a few interesting theories thrown into the mix.
Well-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons don’t come up on auction all that often, which is just one of the reasons why Stan went for such a hefty fee.
Whilst the existence of the ancient megalodon shark has been widely reported, the exact size and scale of the shark’s features have been shrouded in mystery.
An art museum in Oxford banished a Rembrandt painting to the basement in 1981, declaring it a fake. Fast forward nearly four decades, and things have changed.
History tells us that while a COVID-19 vaccine would be timely, scientists shouldn’t jump the gun before sending one out into the world.
TikTok users have been participating in the #HolocaustChallenge by role-playing victims of the genocide.
If you want to brush up on your history without boring yourself to tears, there are podcasts out there that are as informative as they are entertaining.
The Santa Maria Madre de Deus was a Portuguese ship that disappeared without a trace in 1643, believed to have sunk off the Eastern Cape coast.
Throughout history, we’ve overcome devastating pandemics, and learned some valuable lessons along the way.
The frail, nobly malnourished old man isn’t quite as saintly as many would have you believe.
This should be obvious, but if you’re going to visit a museum, don’t sit on, and break, the 200-year-old art.
In the US, different states are free to teach their own version of American history. Unsurprisingly, there are some wild inconsistencies.
After years of studies, scientists believe that they’ve solved the mystery of where Neolithic people sourced the stones used to make Stonehenge.
Who was the Joe in ‘a cup of Joe’? Enquiring minds want answers, so we did some digging.
So you’ve just dropped a few thousand on a bridal bouquet, but have you ever stopped to think about why you carry one in the first place?
The gin and tonic had to come a long way before it was your drink of choice, and the journey wasn’t always pretty.
Archaeologists are describing their new discovery as the “largest prehistoric structure ever found” in Britain.
Churchill’s statue outside the Palace of Westminster in London was defaced last week, which once again drew attention to the leader’s views on race.
Africa Check looked into Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s claims that more than 300 000 South Africans died from the Spanish Flu.
25 years after Mel Gibson yelled “they will never take our freedom”, historians are still upset about the lack of factual accuracy in ‘Braveheart’.
The future Queen and her sister Margaret were sent to Windsor during WWII to keep them safe, along with Alathea Fitzalan Howard, who kept a diary.
The Spanish flu was terrifying because it proves that a cousin of the influenza virus has the potential to wipe out millions of people.
South Africa is one of the few countries in the world to create and then denounce nuclear weapons, and it had great deal to do with the transition to democracy.
A demolition worker in New Jersey found far more than he bargained for while trying to take down a wall at a university.
We honestly have no idea why someone would put pictures of a place where over 1,1 million people lost their lives on a Christmas ornament.
The four forces of nature are gravity, electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force, and the strong force, although scientists are now flirting with a fifth.