On the Salt Creek Prairie in the summer of 1871, a teamster named Samuel Elliot was chained to the iron…
65 BC. A woman is dragged through the corridors of the Persian royal palace, past guards who won’t meet her…
When we talk about castration, it isn’t true that knives were the only instruments used. Through history, people used axes,…
“It is late afternoon on October 1st, 1789 on a creek in the far southwestern corner of Virginia and a…
“The freezing experiments carried out during World War II involved subjecting prisoners to extreme temperatures in order to study the…
“Executions have only one purpose, and that is to be quick. Suddenly, with a single blow, everything is over. But…
In a spring morning in 1358, inside the Alcalaza of Seville, a 24year-old knight walked into a courtyard believing his…
In 1964, archaeologists dug into a well near ancient Sparta. They expected broken pottery, animal bones. Instead, they found babies,…
In 79 AD, deep under Rome’s loudest arena, a 19-year-old Dacian girl named Sabina stood shackled in a pitch black…
There are hundreds of graves in the sand at Giza, and for 4 and 1/2 thousand years, nobody knew they…