Was the horrific fate that befell Jamestown, the first English colony in the Americas founded around 1607, a consequence of great misfortune or someone's malice?
Did ancient Phoenicians, a powerful Mediterranean nation of seafaring traders also known as the Canaanites in the Bible, really sacrifice their children in rituals involving human sacrifice, or was this claim just a fabrication?
What sank the powerful carrack-type warship Mary Rose, pride of British navy and King Henry VIII, during the battle against the French invasion fleet on 19 July 1545 .