Register - AllThatHistory

What Happened to the Knights Templar’s Legendary Lost Treasure?

A medieval arrest, a burned Grand Master, and 700 years of digging for gold that may never have existed.

Egypt’s Saqqara Necropolis: Dozens of Sealed Coffins Untouched for 2,500 Years

The find wasn’t about a king. It was about how ordinary Egyptians paid their way into the afterlife.

DNA Is Finally Cracking One of the Arctic’s Oldest Unsolved Mysteries

New genetic identifications are confirming what Inuit witnesses said all along, and what Victorian Britain refused to believe.

Was JFK’s Assassination a Conspiracy?

The U.S. government has released thousands of CIA documents on the JFK assassination and is still holding some back. Why? This week on Ask History.

The Volcano That May Have Triggered Egypt’s Plagues

Sometime around 1600 BCE, a volcanic island in the southern Aegean exploded with a force that ranks among the largest eruptions in the last 10,000 years. The island was Thera, now known as Santorini

The Comet That May Have Destroyed a Village and Nearly Triggered an Ice Age

Evidence of a cosmic airburst at one of the world’s oldest farming villages has split scientists for almost twenty years.