Finding primitive humans – Strange Evidence
Strange Evidence is back on the Science Channel for another season and contributor Tony McMahon looks at three foot high humans and Escobar’s ghost!
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Grave robbers through the centuries
Grave robbers have been desecrating tombs throughout history but as Tony McMahon discovers it’s often for very different reasons
A warning to anti-vaxxers from history
A lesson from history for anti-vaxxers that when people stopped vaccinating in 19th century Ceylon – smallpox returned even worse than before as Tony McMahon reports
2019 – a busy year for me on history TV programmes!
Tony McMahon calls himself the bearded historian and appears on history TV programmes making the subject fun and accessible to global audiences
Did aliens from outer space civilise us?
When I was a kid back in the 1970s, I devoured a hugely popular book by the Swiss author Erich von Däniken called Chariots of the Gods. You may have read it too. His contention was that ancient monuments, carvings and stories clearly evidenced the presence of alien beings amongst us in ancient history. One…
Was King George really a tyrant?
King George III was characterised by the US Constitution as a tyrant but in reality he was no worse than other monarchs as Tony McMahon discovers