Lost History
Events erased from official records, operations buried in classified files, and narratives deliberately rewritten. We examine the gaps between what happened and what we’re told happened, using declassified documents, witness accounts, and overlooked evidence to piece together suppressed stories.
The Abbess’s Code – Testing Hildegard’s ‘lingua ignota’
Hildegard of Bingen left a 1,011-word ‘unknown language’ and a distinct alphabet. We test what survives: glossary, hymn and letterforms. Does it scale beyond a naming list, and what do the numbers say?
The Antikythera Paradigm – The Ghost of a Lost World
Found in a Roman-era shipwreck, the Antikythera Mechanism is a machine that shouldn't exist. It contains gearing technology that wouldn't be seen again for 1,400 years. We investigate the lost world that built it.
The Serengeti Investigation – The Truth About Africa’s Most Famous Wilderness
Declassified British colonial files reveal the Serengeti's "pristine wilderness" was manufactured through systematic dispossession. The world's most famous park began as an elite hunting estate, built on 64 years of legal warfare against indigenous peoples.
The Archive That Isn’t There – Investigating the Gaps in KGB History
One side burned their archives on the way out the door. The other side blacks out entire pages of what remains. When everyone is hiding the same kind of secrets, from the same period of time, it pays to ask why.
The Invisible Architects – Cold War Ops They Erased
Some of the Cold War’s smartest players weren’t superpowers. They were small nations running psychological ops, outmanoeuvring the giants, and vanishing their tracks. Here's how they did it.
The Phantom Time Hypothesis – The Clock That Lost 297 Years
Nearly 300 years might not have happened. The Phantom Time Hypothesis explores a chronological anomaly with deep implications for how we build and trust the past.
Powell, Orwell, and the Politics of Prophetic Anxiety
Powell and Orwell shaped how we talk about race, control, and truth. This investigation traces how their warnings became tools in modern political conflict.
The Empire That Knew It Would Die – The Aztec Collapse
What if the fall of the Aztec Empire wasn’t a conquest, but a prophecy fulfilled? This article explores erased codices, fatalistic cosmology, and the theory that Montezuma didn’t lose. He complied.
The Case of the Akhmim Fragment – Following the Contradictory Evidence
In 1886–1887 a codex surfaced at Akhmim, reportedly from a monk’s grave. We test that discovery story, Serapion’s heresy charge, and the ‘talking cross’ scene to weigh dependence on Matthew against an earlier Gospel of Peter tradition.
Saint George England’s Patron – A Political Appointment
In 1348, Edward III quietly replaced England's patron saint with a Palestinian martyr whose life story was a mystery even to the Pope. The timing reveals this wasn't about faith, it was about war.