Articles by Jenny Williamson

Off the coast of Israel there is an underwater megalithic stone circle dating back to the 7000s BC – that is perfectly preserved, keeping its secrets from another time. [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here is a helpful documentary: Other sources include: Pseudo-Dionysus of Tel Mahre: Chronicle. Translated by Witold Whitakowski “Yersinia pestis and [...Read More...]

This is an episode about a plague that killed up to 100 million people by the time it was done—as many as 60% of its victims. It’s the first documented occurrence of a [...Read More...]

What was the worst year to be alive? Some researchers have a very specific answer to this question: 536 AD. This is a year when the global temperature dropped, and it was [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here’s that documentary we mentioned in the episode: Other sources include: Victoria C. Smith. “The magnitude and impact of the 431 CE Tierra [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here are some very helpful documentaries: Our other sources include: Lorraine Boissoneault. “What Really Turned the Sahara Desert From a Green Oasis [...Read More...]

Deep in the western Sahara—in perhaps one of the driest parts of the driest desert in the world—there are cave paintings that depict people swimming. These cave paintings [...Read More...]

Crater Lake is a caldera lake in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon—the remnants of an ancient volcanic eruption. It’s the deepest lake in the country and one of the deepest [...Read More...]

Mammoths existed on our planet for roughly five million years, and they were perfectly adapted to the ice age world they inhabited. So perfectly adapted that when the last [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! The Economist: Mammoth society seems to have been like that of modern elephants CNET: Woolly mammoth extinction blamed on climate change, not human hunting. [...Read More...]