Alexander Lee

Could a pair of ancient looking coins reveal the existence of a previously unknown Roman emperor?

In 1820 the discovery of an ancient Greek statue with missing arms posed more questions than answers.

Aristotle’s lost treatise on laughter is a serious business. Could laughter lead to the downfall of society?

The question of reconstruction was a thorny issue in postwar Germany, where celebrations of the ‘glorious’ past took on a different hue.

Did two paintings by the Italian master Caravaggio end up in a backstreet shop in Avignon?

Missing fragments of the written record are made all the more conspicuous by their absence.

A speculative novel about an amphibious threat held dire warnings for interwar Europe.

The fact that lobsters ‘walked’ on their claws puzzled even Aristotle. He had to employ all his deductive genius to explain why.

It took a long while for Rudolph and the other reindeer to team up with Santa Claus. But once they did, there was no stopping them.

In 1822 a badly abused donkey became the first animal to receive justice in a British court.