Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…sailing Madog, but another less important one. But no. There is more. Kind of. Richard Deacon in his Madoc and the Discovery of America (1966) made an exciting claim. A…

…hand that protruded from the sand, perhaps thrown up by rigor mortis. A local police report ignobly claimed that Garibaldi had strangled his own wife to prevent discovery on the…

…Hole phenomenon” and I was intrigued to read your blog entry from 2010 about the alleged discovery by Dr Schliemann of two living toads during his excavation of the ruins…

…nature of the parallel. Wouldn’t it be easier to postulate a background ‘Celtic’, ‘Insular’ (?) or ‘Indo-European’ (??) motif whereby a poet informs a king of a buried body of…

  In 1940 a thrilling discovery was made at the Ethiopian monastery of Dabra-Dammo in northern Ethiopia. In the remains of a gold encrusted box in the holy house 104…

…behind the pay wall, Beach will excerpt some of it: ‘The fashion for dental bling goes back 1,000 years, according to a new discovery by archaeologists. Long before contemporary trends…

…radar not just because of his great achievements – discovery of Uranus etc – but because of some of his more curious speculations. For centuries, scholars, thinkers and theologians had…

…couple (ahem!) of errors in his transcription of the frightening Roman cat, luckily put right by Camape (see below). Beachcombing’s online discovery of the month, meanwhile, was a blog that…

…had a tenth of the courage of this man, who was fighting for his reputation and his life in an unforgiving interwar English village. The discovery of his identity as…

…was inspired by the discovery of fossilized pygmy elephant skulls. The eyes on such skulls – Beachcombing shamelessly stole the picture of one above – are not particularly prominent, while…

…history since its discovery back in the ‘60s, causing many to believe that the treasure, also known as the Lydian Hoard, is cursed. It was smuggled from its home in…

…but a clumsy medieval forgery. Glastonbury had presumably put it together to give some background to the discovery of unusual bones on its territory: another source tells us that curtains…

…a European Christian, complete with a cross on his chest. It is by no means impossible that a European Christian might have been in that area at that time, and…

…in Berlin. “We were stunned and could not imagine the cause of the failure,” Schlabrendorff later remembered. “Even worse would be the discovery of the bomb, which would unfailingly lead…

…up and opened by Tye. Tye is an honest sailor, and deserves all praise for his promptitude in advertising his discovery; and we trust that when the farmer and his…