Claire Cock-Starkey

Joined: Nov 3, 2015

Claire Cock-Starkey is a writer and editor based in the UK. Her latest book, The Book Lovers' Miscellany, was published in January 2018. Visit her at www.nonfictioness.com.

A view of Chatsworth House, known to Jane Austen fans as Mr. Darcy’s Pemberley.

Detail of Scene 52 of the Bayeux Tapestry showing a group of horsemen fighting with spears and swords, armored with mail-shirts and helmets, and carrying shields.

From the Bermuda Triangle to the ‘Mary Celeste,’ here are some of the most puzzling enigmas of the deep.

The allegedly cursed ghost town of Bodie, California.

From ruined castles in Europe to a pebbled beach in Thailand, these supposedly hexed global destinations carry warnings for all who dare to visit them.

The Jhelum River Bridge, part of the ancient Grand Trunk Road passing through Punjab, Pakistan.

Some of the world’s oldest roadways are only memories now—but many have been preserved as historic monuments or improved to handle today’s traffic.

When the supposedly unsinkable 'Titanic' went down on April 15, 1912, the Halifax-based ship 'Mackay-Bennett' was assigned to recover its victims.

Fossilized human footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park are between 21,000 and 23,000 years old and pre-date the Clovis people in North America.

Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The evidence from these ancient sites says otherwise.

A famous fresco in Pompeii’s Villa of the Mysteries.

In 79 CE, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 20 feet of ash, preserving amazing details about daily life in the Roman Empire.

An exact replica of a cave painting in Lascaux showing a bison and aurochs facing each other, along with small horses and deer.

The astonishing cave paintings of bison, deer, and extinct animals were discovered by accident in France in 1940. They offer a tantalizing glimpse into prehistory.