Category: History
The real story behind Mansa Musa.
Mansa Musa was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign.
Vinland: what actually happened.
Vinland, Vineland, or Winland was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings.
The surprising truth about Mary Anning.
Mary Anning was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist.
The facts behind Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar was an Indian mathematician who worked during the early 20th century.
Petra is stranger than it sounds.
Petra, originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu, is an ancient city and archaeological site in southern Jordan.
Sacsayhuamán is stranger than it sounds.
Sacsayhuamán or Saksaywaman is a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru, the historic capital of the Inca Empire.
Lighthouse of Alexandria still raises strange questions.
The Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria, was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus.
Ada Lovelace is stranger than it sounds.
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer,…
Ismail al-Jazari still raises strange questions.
Badīʿ az-Zaman Abu l-ʿIzz ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ar-Razāz al-Jazarī was a polymath, scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, artisan and artist from the Artuqid Dynasty of Jazira in Mesopotamia.
Zhang Heng is stranger than it sounds.
Zhang Heng, courtesy name Pingzi, formerly romanized Chang Heng, was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman who lived during the Eastern Han dynasty.