Gruel is a food consisting of some type of cereal—such as ground oats, wheat, rye, or rice—heated or boiled in water or milk. It is a thinner version of porridge that may be more often drunk rather than eaten. Historically, gruel has been a staple of the...

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8 charts in one! Included is a family tree of the ancient Egyptian gods, a timeline of Egyptian history, a map of Upper and Lower Egypt, a guide to Egyptian hieroglyphs, information on Egypt's 12 largest pyramids, and family tree charts for the most famou...

Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, has died, Buckingham Palace has announced.

Do you know what Wednesday’s middle name is or who played Thing in The Addams Family 1964 TV series? How about which actress was originally lined up to play Morticia or what name Gomez could have been called instead?

Discover the works of poet and songwriter Sappho, and find out why only fragments of her poetry still survive.

The myth of the Minotaur tells the story of an enraged beast forever wandering the corridors of a damp labyrinth, filled with a rage so intense that its deafening roar shakes the earth. But is this story just fiction, or an attempt of our early ancestors...

Deep inside Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library lies a 240 page tome. Recently carbon dated to around 1420, its pages feature looping handwriting and hand drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream. It is called the Voynich manuscript, and it...

In 1974, farmers digging a well near their small village stumbled upon one of the most important finds in archaeological history – vast underground chambers surrounding a Chinese emperor’s tomb that contained more than 8,000 life-size clay soldiers ready...

Alan rolls up his sleeves to help the specialists working hard to maintain Lyme in Cheshire, from winding the 50 clocks throughout the house to vacuuming a 17th-century tapestry. Dan Jones goes panning for gold in Wales and Jon Culshaw visits one of the m...

This is the story of the most disturbing witch trial in British history and the key role played in it by one nine-year-old girl. Jennet Device, a beggar-girl from Pendle in Lancashire, was the star witness in the trial in 1612 of her own mother, her broth...

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The earliest time measurements were observations of cycles of the natural world, using patterns of changes from day to night and season to season to build calendars.

Explore some of the most famous arguments in the ancient debate: is math a human construct or part of the fabric of the universe?