Michel de Nostradame, a 16th century astrology and seer, lived in Provence, Southern France. He wrot...

How do we get close to a killer the police haven't been able to identify for over 100 years? With th...

Robin Hood is one of the first super heroes. Stories of robbing the rich and giving to the poor are...

One of Britain’s oldest unsolved mysteries, but what really happened to the Princes in the Tower? Th...

On December 16th 1916, Grigory Rasputin, self-styled faith healer and confident to the Tsar was fata...

It’s the late 1870s. One of the most infamous outlaws of the American Wild West is Billy the Kid… a...

King Arthur- myth, legend or did he actually exist? According to the tales he reputedly led the defe...

The Renaissance was the greatest flowering of art, mathematics, technology, architecture and astrono...

Abraham Lincoln. The man who rises from obscurity to become the 16th American President and arguably...

Cleopatra was Born into a dangerous, scary and violent world where everyone believed the dead lived,...

In 17th century France, King Louis XIV is perhaps the most powerful man on earth. Known as the Sun K...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Romanov family are at the heart of Russian life. Tsar...

Joan of Arc is one of the patron saints of France and a national and international icon; a young gir...

In fact only two of the four accounts of the life of Christ in the New Testament, the Gospel of Luke...

This programme analyzes the very latest neurological research into Shell Shock and trauma, it retrac...

We reveal that despite the book suggesting he spent 20 years in the court of the Chinese emperor, th...

After his death, his body became one of the most sacred objects in history. Pilgrims, from the commo...

Throughout the seventeenth Century several European travelers visit the Taj Mahal. Many of these exp...

Newton was convinced that he alone had been given a gift to unravel the mysteries of the Universe, w...

Through the accounts and diaries of Saladin’s closest advisers, the mysteries of the period are unco...

His conviction may not be unjust but it is perhaps unfair and certainly unlucky. Kidd’s actions at s...

In Rome today is the street known as Vicus Papissa, ‘the street of the woman pope’. In that avenue i...

In 1890 newspaper headlines read “Custer’s murderer is dead”. The papers tell of the killing of the...

Did Dudley and Elizabeth conspire to murder his wife so that they could be together? By piecing tog...

Decades earlier, a popular writer in Mexico, Riva Palacio, was writing stories with a character call...

We reveal an ambitious archaeological project in Southern Jordan, which is providing startling new e...