Interviews about History

A maths tablet dating back to 1900 BCE depicts 'Pythagorean triples' a millennium before Pythagoras'...

The exhibition has changed somewhat since the 1660s...

Test yourself against our scientific head-scratchers! How do you compare to our panel?

Archaeological digs in Cambridge reveal that the wealthy regularly got bunions from wearing pointy-toed shoes

Can we learn useful lessons about COVID vaccine hesitancy from historical vaccine hesitancy?

What has the Sun meant to us over milennia?

Another delicious and popular food made by fermentation - cheese!

Quorn is single cell protein that makes a good meat substitute; so where did it come from?

Multi-million art sales, financial misconduct, Facebook money... and are we in a cryptocurrency bubble?

Bitcoin is the oldest and biggest cryptocurrency. Its underlying technologies come from unexpected places...

The Los Angeles Times have revealed multiple genealogy platforms used - secretly - to catch a killer...

Schoolchildren have spent much of the pandemic learning virtually. Here's how two kids find the situation...

Throughout recorded history, scientists have made themselves their own test subjects. How - and why?

Unravelling the story of how our ancestors made fabric

We look at a Czech Christmas tradition

Computers create music differently to humans. Here's one project using tech to perform for many lifetimes...

We asked legendary keyboardist Rick Wakeman whether Beethoven would have used a Moog...

A cornucopia of ancient tracks adds to evidence against the old, simple picture of human migration...

The largest movement of people in recorded history has had an enormous impact on our world today...

More people are on the move nowadays than ever before. A migration expert explains why...

How successful have open access policies been?

The main genetic risk factor for serious coronavirus infections comes from Neanderthals...

History's largest ever forced migration changed the world's genetic landscape. Here's how it was tracked...