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With the 100th anniversary this year, discover fascinating
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Welcome Editor’s picks

For more than a century the skeletal remains In this month’s issue, we weigh the evidence on Decoding da Vinci ‘s genius
found in Birka, Sweden, were held up as an the Birka warrior, but also ask you to rethink other 30 Famed as an artist and an
inventor, Leonardo has
archetype of the Viking warrior. The body was assumptions you’ve made about history. Why
long been regarded as
found in 1889 buried with a sword, axe, spear, is Leonardo da Vinci regarded as a genius? Was the original Renaissance
man. But what did he really
armour-piercing arrows, shields and even two Macbeth really blood-thirsty and treacherous?
do to deserve the title?
horses. Interred with an arsenal of weapons, what Should the Nazi general Erwin Rommel — who
else could the ‘Birka warrior’ be? The answer is a may or may not have plotted against Hitler — be 72 Battle of Hydaspes
Alexander the Great takes on
woman, according to modern-day DNA testing. regarded as a hero or villain? an army of elephants, while
Is this conclusive proof that 10th-century We’re keen to kickstart trying to cross a river, in the
middle of a raging storm,
Norse women actually fought alongside men in a conversation about these in the dark. What could
raiding parties? Or does it mean the long-held topics, so please let us know possibly go wrong?
archaeological assumption about Viking burial your thoughts about them 84 Elizabeth I’s secret agents
practices (buried with a sword = warrior) is via Twitter or Facebook. Discover the extreme lengths
Sir Francis Walsingham and
wrong? This is a debate that has been raging in his band of spies went to
the historical community ever since the DNA Jack Parsons protect the Virgin Queen
from foreign powers and
results were revealed in September. Editor homegrown plotters.

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