To celebrate BBC History Magazine’s 20th birthday in 2020, we asked 20 experts to nominate a historical enigma that they’d dearly love to see solved. Later, we released a series of podcasts that ...
Sourcebooks / Justin Dodd, Mental Floss (background) For hundreds of years, the dancing plague remained a mystery ... how it ultimately ended. A great read for history and science lovers alike ...
and armchair detectives have tried to solve the baffling mystery of Kasper Hauser. In the April 1887 issue of Popular Science, M. G. Valbert wrote “The History of a Delusion,” a comprehensive ...
Irvine’s disappearance on Everest in 1924, alongside his compatriot George Mallory, is one of mountaineering’s biggest mysteries – with a solution that has the potential to change history ...