1. Spectators Drank Fresh Gladiator Blood as Medicine Ancient Romans believed that drinking the warm blood straight...
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Explore how the Aztecs’ collective faith powered their empire—where sacrifice, psychology, and belief kept the sun rising....
Forget the blood-soaked temples for a moment. The Aztecs were far stranger, cleverer and more inventive than...
Think Vikings just raided, drank, and snored in their helmets? Think again. Night-time in a Viking household...
They raided, sailed, and slaughtered their way across Europe, but even the fiercest Vikings needed somewhere to...
The Beautiful Barbarians: Viking Allure and Power When the Arab emissary Ahmad ibn Fadlān first saw the...
They ruled mirrors, not empires. They polished their images until truth itself blurred. 1. Cleopatra VII —...
Deir el-Bahari, Thebes – 1881 They find him on a Wednesday. A screaming mummy. Wrapped in sheepskin....
They did not hang a man and walk away. No, for an executioner, that would waste an...
The Tudor Job No One Wanted (and Everyone Envied) Of all the titles in Tudor England, none...