Mysteries of History

As history gradually mutates into the written word and these documents are copied and widely repeated, it’s inevitable that a version of the truth becomes accepted as fact. Far from illuminating the obscure aspects of history, fundamental inaccuracies and outright lies color the depiction of many of those pivotal characters and events we learnt about at school. Cleopatra, Marco Polo, Captain Cook, Joan of Arc. Most of us could probably reel off a fact or two about each. But as this intrigui...