Articles by Jenny Williamson

You’ve been transported almost 2,000 years into the past, to the streets of Pompeii. It’s a brisk autumn morning, around, oh…10 AM…and all hell is about to break [...Read More...]

Cultures on every continent have flood myths, and China is no exception. One of China’s founding myths is one about a singular hero, Yu the Great, and his brilliant works [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Some useful documentaries: Other useful sources include: This crowdsourced translation of Book 1 of the Records of the Grand Historian Ruth Mostern: The [...Read More...]

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...]