"I should leave those alone, if I was you...this is governed by the law of ancient lights."When Mr Max Jenkins bought his house - a substantial Victorian villa in the village of Bacton-on-Sea - he thought he'd snagged himself a bargain. There was only one, minor issue with the property - an...

It occurred to me earlier that we don't seem to have a dedicated thread for battlefield ghosts and phantom battles, and posts are scattered through other ghost threads, the timeslip thread and elsewhere. The Battle of Edgehill was reportedly replayed in the sky, such that participants in the...

Archaeologists found something incredibly rare in the cellar of George Washington's home at Mount Vernon: Two intact jars of cherries buried in the basement of the first U.S. president's house. Cherries and a mystery liquid were found in the jar. And the cherries, [archaeologist] Boroughs...

Or an historical perspective, depending on your pronunciation. A rather long but nicely illustrated article from the Public Domain Review, all about the tradition of defenestration in the Czech city of Prague, starting from before it was even a Czech city: "Windows Onto History: The...

Dr Terror deals the Death card The Guardian's annoying art critic turns his attention to 'a nice, innocent game played by Renaissance courtiers, often featuring strong women. Why were these artistically dazzling cards given a black magic makeover that endures to this day?'...

The After the Plague Project chose sixteen human skeletons from different sites to reconstruct the biographies of these inhabitants of medieval Cambridge in as much detail as possible. Out of the hundreds of skeletons we studied, we chose these individuals for biographical reconstruction...

A tale of Persian Princes settling on the Swahili Coast and intermarrying with locals. DNA shows ‘Persian Princes’ helped found medieval African trading culture Merchants from abroad married into powerful local families on the Swahili coast 29 MAR 2023 11:40 AM BY ANDREW CURRY Medieval tombs...

I've had a quick search on this but didn't turn up anything but I may be using the wrong terms, so please merge (with my apologies) if this is covered elsewhere. I've seen posts on ghosts "fading" as they recede into history but I'm not sure I've seen any speculation on certain periods of...

The Short Version: John Hodgson wrote a multi-volume work entitled 'A History of Northumberland', to which the correct attribution of the construction of Hadrian's Wall is but a peripheral matter. So when he published PART II, VOLUME III in 1840, he appended the fruit of his considerable...

I've just been filtering through the vast repository of interviews that the Imperial War Museum has made available online. The following are a number of examples of references to ghosts and the supernatural--some are fleeting, others more involved. I have supplied a brief indication of what...

Strange encounters from wartime.

Hi all - Can anyone remember an article in FT fairly recently (past year or so) that described an area in Germany (barracks or mine) in a mountainous area, where at the closing months of the Second World War the SS took themselves and their families into the bowels of the mountain and blew the...

http/tinyurl.com/yqr5sy (Mod Edit: Original link is broken. Archived version found via The Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20090130100439/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1545177/Caravaggio-was-actually-Merisi-of-Milan.html) rynner the ubiquitous

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Not just a saucy seductress in a rug, then. :D http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041213/cleopatra.html

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This may seem like a strange question for the forum, but were the Three Musketeer stories the first heroic fictions to be set in a specific, real past? I can't think of any earlier adventure novels that are set in such a real time and specific place. The Leatherstocking Tales were at least...

I can't speak for others... Trojan war... almost certainly happened, and almost certainly didn't involved the Greek God's and probably not the horse. Nature of myth. The Persian Expedition as outlined by Xenophon also probably happened, but that was more likely to have happened in the way...

I'm writing a story/book, I have been working on it for quite a few months now. I've not started the narrative, I've just been developing a complex backstory, and roughing out the plot of the story. The main subject of the story is religion, and a theocracy that has control of basically all...

By Shasta Darlington ROME (Reuters) - For centuries scholars have debated whether Caligula, the Roman empire's eccentric third ruler, was a megalomaniac who dared to defy the gods or a maligned emperor whose caprices were exaggerated after his death. Now a group of archaeologists digging...

If, as is generally accepted, a ghost is a some combination of intense emotion, unfinished business, and ignorance of death--abetted by some sort of psychogeography--shouldn't the abandoned trenches of the Western Front be rife with spooks? American Civil War battlefields are replete with...

Who do YOU think did it? How had the means motive and opportunity to commit one of our most famous unsolved murders? Place your vote and make your comment :) 8¬)