Inside a Wild West Brothel

*TRIGGER WARNING: CONTAINS OLD NORSE SWEAR WORDS*How would you insult a Viking? What strange nicknames did they give each other? And what did a Viking rap battle sound like?!Brush up on your Old Norse and impress your friends with the most obscene Viking swear words. To help you ...  Afficher plus

What happened to King Tut's 'Little Tut' during mummification? The rumour is that he took an erection to the afterlife, but what can we know after several millennia and a very rough excavation?Dr Campbell Price came into the studio to bust a few myths about the boy Pharaoh. But n ...  Afficher plus

Season 1, Episode 11. America's Wild West evokes images of grizzled men in fringed chaps, but women were also there to help shape the frontier: the pioneer women who fought through many hardships to carve out a life on the dusty plains and the Mexican and Native American women wh ...  Afficher plus

Think of the Wild West, and you’ll imagine cowboys, shootouts, bank robberies and saloons. But it was also a time of massive resettlement, new technology and communications. But what the white settlers’ westward migration mean for the native people who had lived on the land for c ...  Afficher plus

If you're like most people, the phrase ''Wild West'' conjures images of brutal gunfights in dusty, tumbleweed-ridden streets, visions of criminals slinking into the shadows of dimly-lit saloons and the vast stretch of lawless, unforgiving frontier. But how much of that image i ...

Prostitutes were everywhere in the streets and neighbourhoods of medieval cities. In one and the same building, there might be a school upstairs, while downstairs prostitutes plied their nefarious trade. But how did such a situation come to pass? And how could such a world exi ...