History's Mysteries

A handful of fishermen, an angry tax collector. But united by a charismatic Jewish preacher, this ragtag gang shaped into history's most famous revolutionaries.

King Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, and the Knights of the Round Table--are they figures from fanciful fable or portraits from a pagan past?

In a mystery that still baffles historians 300 years after the event, French King Louis XIV orders a prisoner shut away for 34 years.

Most people assume that Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first to make and fly an airplane. But other aviation pioneers built planes and flew around the same time. Why didn't they gain the recognition many experts think they deserve?

The execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in 1927 ignited worldwide protest. To those inspired by political philosophy of the left, they were martyrs. To conservatives, they were anarchists.