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Were ancient Ireland’s ‘incestuous elites’ just a myth? A tomb older than Stonehenge has new answers
In 2020, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within ...
A supernaturally athletic ghost is alleged to have menaced the towns and cities of 19th-century England. Able to spew fire ...
Drawn from the British aristocracy to the heart of Hitler’s inner circle, Unity Mitford’s life was a disturbing collision of ...
The eldest of the Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford turned the eccentricities of her family and social class into sharp, ...
Diana Mitford was the most dazzling and infamous of the Mitford sisters, an aristocratic British family who became ...
Assassins, royal marriages and diplomatic gift-giving: historian and archaeologist Max Adams explains how the kings of Mercia ...
The setting for this myth is ancient Mesopotamia, a civilisation whose name literally means “the land between the rivers”. These rivers – the Tigris and Euphrates – run through modern-day Iraq and ...
In ancient Greek medicine, particularly after the writings of Hippocrates (c460–c370 BCE) and his followers, food was understood through the lens of humoral theory – the idea that health depended on ...
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