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Is the Shroud of Turin Real, or a Medieval Forgery?

Lab tests and believers have been arguing over one linen cloth for almost 40 years.

The 1957 Flu Killed 116,000 Americans, and Most People Have Never Heard of It

A fast vaccine response may be exactly why it disappeared from memory.

The Inscription That Reveals How Christianity Closed Down Its Biggest Rival Religion

A newly deciphered Aramaic text found in a Turkish desert fortress documents the exact moment one of Rome’s most popular cults was shut down for good.

Was King Arthur a Real Person?

Camelot and Excalibur came centuries later. Historians are still arguing over what, if anything, came first.

The Women Pharaohs History Keeps Forgetting

Everyone knows Hatshepsut and Cleopatra. But Egypt had other female pharaohs that history keeps glossing over including possibly the very first ruler of unified Egypt, a woman whose tomb was larger than the first pharaoh’s. The pattern of female rule appearing in succession crises, followed by deliberate erasure, runs through 3,000 years of Egyptian history.

Three Different Human Species Were Living Side by Side, and Nobody Told the Textbooks

A small-brained cousin, early Homo sapiens, and a genetic ghost population may have shared the same landscape for tens of thousands of years.