Hoodie History

Six archaeological discoveries. Six moments when a shovel struck something no one was looking for — and everything we thought we knew about the ancient world had to be rewritten from scratch. In 1799, French soldiers digging fortifications in Egypt uncovered a broken stone slab covered in three different scripts. Within twenty years, a brilliant linguist would use it to crack a code that had been...

In 1769, a Polynesian high priest stood at the rail of a British sailing ship off the coast of New Zealand and called out to Māori warriors in a language they could understand. He was thousands of kilometres from home. No European on that ship could have done what he did. And for two hundred years, history barely remembered his name. This is the story of Tupaia. Born on the sacred island of Ra&#39...

In September 1941, Nazi soldiers dismantled one of the greatest treasures ever created – six tonnes of amber panels, gold leaf, and precious stones – packed it into twenty-seven crates, and shipped it west. In 1945, those crates vanished. Eighty years later, no one knows where they are. This is the story of the Amber Room. Built for a Prussian king in the early 1700s and gifted to Peter the Great...