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History's greatest mysteries

The historical enigmas that historians would dearly love to see solved

The Voynich Manuscript is written in a unique alphabet that has thus far defeated some of the world’s greatest codebreakers. (Photo by Alamy)

Published: August 22, 2024 at 12:50 AM

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History's greatest mysteriesAgatha Christie disappears. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

As part of our series on history’s greatest mysteries, Dominic Sandbrook discusses the case of Agatha Christie's disappearance…
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History’s greatest mysteriesWhat happened to the Roman Ninth Legion?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Ninth Legion of the Roman army was last recorded in York in around AD 107. After that it simply vanished from history. To this day no-one knows what caused the destruction of this elite army unit, although many theories have been put forward.
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History’s greatest mysteriesWas the Trojan War fact or fiction?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In the latest in our series on history’s biggest conundrums, the author and classicist Daisy Dunn seeks out evidence of the Trojan War
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History's greatest mysteriesWhy did Mao’s chosen successor flee China?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In the latest in our series on history’s biggest conundrums, historian Rana Mitter considers the mysterious “Lin Biao incident”
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History’s greatest mysteriesWhat caused the medieval ‘dancing plague’?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In the final episode of this series of History’s Greatest Mysteries, medieval historian Helen Carr describes the events of the ‘dancing plagues’
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History’s greatest mysteriesThe Voynich Manuscript. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elma Brenner discusses the 500-year-old Voynich Manuscript, whose mysterious text has baffled some of the greatest code-breakers
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History’s greatest mysteriesThe lost colony of Roanoke Island. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Misha Ewen delves into the mysterious disappearance of a group of English settlers in North America in the late 16th century
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History’s greatest mysteriesThe fate of Jesus's body. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tom Holland explores historical and religious explanations as to what may have happened to Jesus’s body following his crucifixion
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History’s greatest mysteriesStonehenge. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mike Pitts considers how and why the monument was created, more than 4,000 years ago
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History's greatest mysteriesThe Princes in the Tower. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nathen Amin considers some of the possible explanations for the princes’ disappearance and whether Richard III was behind their murder

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