Most of us today are familiar with what has become collectively known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Discovered between 1946 and 1956, in caves located just over one mile inland from the shore of the Dead Sea, in the modern day Palestinian territory of the West Bank, the scrolls are of great religious and… Read More

  The CS Mackay-Bennett was a cable repair ship that operated primarily in the North Atlantic, between 1884 and 1922. Now, mending underwater cables is not a terribly interesting subject to be writing about, I agree; but it is the Mackay-Bennett’s role in the aftermath of one of the twentieth century’s most infamous tragedies, for… Read More

  On the 18th April 1943, four boys with an interest in ornithology, were enthusiastically going about their bird spotting in Hagley Woods, near Birmingham, England, when one of them made a grizzly discovery. Climbing a wych elm tree, one of the boys peered inside the hollow trunk, and discovered a human skull residing there.… Read More