A bright reputation can hide a lot, and history has a habit of smoothing rough edges. A few famous figures looked admirable, but their personal choices paint a very different picture.
The utterly brutal Battle of Stalingrad lives in infamy—and survivors have confessed to unthinkably dark acts deep in the trenches.
On the high windswept Tibetan Plateau, researchers have authenticated a stone inscription that offers direct evidence of Qin Shi Huang’s fabled expedition for the elixir of immortality.
Facing impossible odds, the mighty 300 of Sparta made a stand at the Battle of Thermopylae that determined the course of history—despite how it ended.
Frederick Benteen's decisions at the Battle of the Little Bighorn helped save one battalion from annihilation, even as General Custer rode to his doom.
Situated on the Nile’s west bank opposite Luxor, Egypt’s Valley of the Kings took over from the pyramids as the pharaohs’ preferred location for the afterlife. The Valley is a timeless monument to the Ancient Egyptians’ complex vision of eternity.
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