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Ancient Greece: everything you wanted to know

Magic stone in Laraibina village in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea on September 27, 2009. This magic stone is hidden in a tree in Laraibina village. It is very useful to call the rain or to make some magic actions on people. It is forbidden to touch it, only the witch doctor can hold it. The same kind of stones exists in Vanuatu. (Photo by Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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A 16th-century painting of the Tower of Babel

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Victorian heroine Grace Darling (1815–1842) with her father, lighthouse keeper William Darling. They are rowing from the Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands off Northumberland, to rescue the passengers of the stricken ship 'SS Forfarshire'. (Photo by Nigel Dobinson/Getty Images)

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Exclusive podcastLauren Johnson on the life and death of Henry VI

A contemporary painting shows Parisians seizing weapons from the Hôtel des Invalides on 14 July 1789, ahead of the storming of the Bastille later that day. Before revolution swept through Paris, peasants across the country were abolishing a whole social order from below.

The French Revolution: a tale of two revolutions

Black Lives Matter activists in Seattle, June 2020. “Accounts of the past have failed to properly address persecution,” says Peter Frankopan. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)

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Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII

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A painting of the Princes in the Tower

Did Richard III really kill the Princes in the Tower?

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What has been voted history’s greatest mystery?

The princes in the Tower

History's greatest mysteriesThe Princes in the Tower

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A portrait of Queen Anne of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Stonehenge

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A replica of Jesus' tomb. (Photo by Alamy)

History’s greatest mysteriesThe fate of Jesus's body

The magnificent ruins of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani

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Alexander the Great

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A portrait of Elizabeth I, c1565

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10 facts about Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë

Portrait of the Bronte sisters

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History’s greatest mysteriesThe lost colony of Roanoke Island

The arrival of Sir Walter Raleigh in Virginia

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German Chancellor Adolf Hitler reviews storm troopers

Second World War

How did the Nazi party rise to power in Germany in 1933? And what were Hitler’s motivations?

A portrait of Thomas Cromwell.

The downfall of Thomas Cromwell

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

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National guardsmen confront confront citizens during Chicago's race riots

Red summer of 1919: the history of Chicago's race riots

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