# Troy
The Dark Side Of King Arthur & Other Disturbing Legends From History
The legendary King Arthur’s tale, as most of us have come to know it, has come to us through a series of Disney-like filters. The Arthur we know is a saintly figure…
The World’s Most Impressive Fakes, Forgeries, and Finds that Made History
Fake historic “discoveries” are, unfortunately, all too frequent. For generations, school kids were taught that Francis Drake had been to…
Archaeological Facts that Could Change the Way We See History
Professor Indiana Jones made archaeology a cool, nonstop barrel of action on screen. In real life, archaeological discoveries are seldom…
The Town That Got Away With Murder and Other Largely Forgotten Historic Events
In 1981, the people of tiny Skidmore, Missouri (pop. 441 then, about 280 now) got together to figure out what…
20 Archaeological Finds That Rewrote History
For the bulk of history, knowledge of significant past events had a distressing tendency to blend into the mists of…
History on Film: The Historical Accuracy of 8 Classic Movies
It might have been Mark Twain who wrote: “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story”,…