World Mythtory

It's that one that everybody knows, but nobody will quite admit to believing -- that the world is going to end on 21 December 2012.  ...

This one I suspect many (if not most) USians became familiar with the name Fawkes from the character in Harry Potter. I recall one Engli...

I found this image everywhere, but never with a source. So if you know it, please send me info on who to credit! This one is a little...

The Iron Maiden. Usually this brings up one of two mental images for most people. One's a band. That's not the one this post is t...

Georg von Rosen - Oden som vandringsman, 1886 (Odin, the Wanderer) It seems to be a common belief that the current generation of peopl...

Columbus is probably another one of those "American Continent  history people that get a lot less attention in Europe. Since ...

Wikipedia has some of the best pictures.  The  guillotine.  Most people know a handful of things about this particular device, mostl...

Canopic coffinette, from the tomb of  Tutankhamen. Thanks to having a honking huge amount of press, King Tut's one of the mos...

No source to protect the guilty. It's also all over Tumblr. In case you can't read the text, it says: "This is a gr...