The author takes a look at the Voynich manuscript, the Book of Enoch, a lost subterranean labyrinth in Ecuador, and the mysterious lines in the desert of Nazca.
Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. To understand something, you need to know its history. Right?
So many historical 'truths' handed down by teachers or historians, and repeated by the press, prove on closer scrutiny to be at best misleading, and at worst de
They Got It Wrong: History exposes historical fallacies around the globe from the Roman Empire to World War II. There are countless twisted, sanitized tales tha