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Africa

The Haiti slave revolt. (Image by Getty)

Slave revolt

Illustration of pirate John Ward

Pirate John Ward: the real Captain Jack Sparrow

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi.

Second World War

The WW2 obsession: why the world can’t move on from 1945

Tutankhamun’s golden funeral mask. (Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

8 things you (probably) didn’t know about Tutankhamun

Four figures in a boat, including the ibis-headed god Thoth and the scarab-headed god Khepri

8 ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses you might not know about

Ramesses II holding prisoners

Was Ramesses II really that great?

An open Bible on an altar

General ancient history

A history of the Bible: who wrote it and when?

Explorer Ferdinand Magellan

Dire straits: Ferdinand Magellan’s fatal voyage of discovery

Marble bust of Emperor Caligula. (DEA / A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

The 8 bloodiest Roman emperors in history

Great Pyramid of Giza

5 facts about the Great Pyramid of Giza

c50 BC, Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, the last and most famous of the Ptolemaic dynasty. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

6 things you (probably) didn’t know about Cleopatra

Simon was found with his whiskers burned off and hurt by four pieces of shrapnel. The medical officer thought he wouldn’t survive the night (Photo by Keystone Pictures USA / Alamy Stock Photo)

10 top cats in history

A 16th-century map showing Magellan's ship

A voyage from hell: how Magellan’s circumnavigation of the world changed history

Emma Dabiri. (Photo by Fran Monks)

Why black hair matters

The Suez canal

How significant was the Suez Crisis?