Hundreds of so-called vampires were discovered in a small town in northern Poland, with the bizarre burial practices shedding ...

Most people have heard of Guy Fawkes, the most famous participant in the Gunpowder Plot. But Fawkes didn’t work alone ...

Ross Kemp travels to New York to explore the UK’s mafia connections. He meets Salvatore ‘Crazy Sal’ Polisi, a 1970s mafia enforcer, who reveals how British bootleggers in the 1920s helped build the ...

From Buddha’s tooth to Muhammad’s beard to anything involving Jesus Christ and his crucifixion, holy relics are highly sought ...

In this exciting five-part history series, 'Curse of the Ancients' Professor Alice Roberts reveals how scientists are unearthing the evidence for cataclysmic events in the past and their disastrous ...

The Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga, often called the ‘Balkan Nostradamus’ is known for her eerie and often cryptic predictions ...

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River Hunters pairs US Youtube sensation Beau Ouimette, a river detectorist with over 30 years’ experience, with presenter and keen swimmer Rick Edwards, as they search the UK’s waterways for ...

Every second one and half million tons of volcanic debris spewed into the atmosphere... It was certain death in a fraction of a second for every living thing that resided in Pompeii at that time ...

The US customs of dressing up and trick-and-treating at Halloween have since spread globally, but similar, centuries-old traditions are to be found all over the world ...

‘In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’ The Allies had hoped their decoy plans might buy them two weeks, seven was unthinkable. Sign up now to ...

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