History — stories and articles
Everything on WonderBooks tagged History: 41 articles and 37 illustrated stories, free to read with audio narration.
Articles
- How Alan Turing's Codebreaking Machine Actually Worked
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead Was Never One Book
- Cleopatra: The Ruler Behind the Myth
- How the Printing Press Actually Changed Europe
- Hatshepsut: The Pharaoh Someone Tried to Erase
- How Artificial Intelligence Was Actually First Programmed
- How Is Adelaide, Australia: A Tale of Two Cities, Past and Present
- Abydos: A City of Kings, Not Regions
- Unlocking Al-Azhar Mosque: Is Entry Really Free?
- Unraveling the Truth: Is Ali Baba Real?
- Is *Amsterdam Empire* a True Story? The History Behind the Netflix Series
- The True Story of Amsterdam: Fact or Fiction?
- Archimedes' Principle Is True: Here's Why It Holds Up
- Catherine the Great: Is Her Story True, or Just a Legend?
- Don Quixote: More Than Just a Wild Imagination
- Is It True the Brooklyn Bridge Was Engineered by a Woman?
- Marcus Aurelius and the Journal He Never Meant to Publish
- Seven Inventions That Transformed Twentieth-Century Life
- What Happened to Oppenheimer After Trinity
- Top 5 Wonder Egypt Stories About History
- Why Kyoto and Istanbul Became the Cities They Are
- What Tutankhamun's Tomb Actually Revealed
- What are some key inventions in transportation?
- What are the 10 most important battles in history?
- What are the most famous artifacts in the Egyptian Museum?
- What a Blockchain Actually Is, Explained From How It Was Built
- Unearthing Abydos: More Than Just a Temple
- Who Were the 10 Greatest Pharaohs in Ancient Egypt?
- Agra Fort Is Not Under Indian Army Control — Here's Why
- Akhenaten: A Pharaoh Who Changed Everything?
- Akhenaten: Pharaoh or Heretic? Examining an Ancient Controversy
- Rome's Decline: A Look at What Really Happened
- Unpacking the Enduring Significance of Angkor Wat
- Sobekneferu Did Call Herself Pharaoh: Why the Confusion Lingers
- Why Historical Illustration Has to Get the Small Details Right
- Why Is Alexandria in Egypt? Unpacking the City's Enduring Location
- Why Philosophy Feels Hard to Read (And How a Story Fixes It)
- Ramses II: A Legacy of Power and Propaganda
- Why Saint Augustine of Hippo Is So Important to Western Thought
- The Battle of Talas: Why Its Importance Is Often Misunderstood
- From Windmills to Wind Turbines: The Same Idea, 800 Years Apart
Illustrated stories
- Cairo, Egypt
The construction of the Pyramids of Giza, dating back over 4,500 years, solidified… • Egypt - Cleopatra's Kitten and the Nile
- Cleopatra's Kitten and the Nile Quest
- Cusco, Peru
The Spanish conquest in the 16th century dramatically reshaped Cusco, leading to the… • Peru - Egyptian Creation Myths
Creation Myths • Grand Egyptian Museum - Egyptian Pottery: The First Art Form
The First Art Form • Ancient Egypt - Egyptian Schools and Education
Schools and Education • Ancient Egypt - Florence, Italy
The Renaissance (14th-16th century), which transformed Florence into a cultural and… • Italy - Hatshepsut: The Woman Who Became Pharaoh
The Woman Who Became Pharaoh • Ancient Egypt - How Egyptians Moved 2-Ton Blocks
Egyptians • Ancient Egypt - How Refugees Reshaped Europe After World War II
- How the Ottoman Empire Expanded (1451, Anatolia)
The Ottoman Empire • Ottoman Empire - Luxor Today: The World's Largest Open-Air Museum
The World's Largest Open-Air Museum • Ancient Egypt - Nefertari's Tomb: The Sistine Chapel of Egypt
The Sistine Chapel of Egypt • Ancient Egypt - Philae Temple: Rescued from the Flood
Rescued from the Flood • Ancient Egypt - Prague, Czechia
The Velvet Revolution in 1989, a peaceful transition from communist rule to a… • Czechia - Rome, Italy
The Roman Empire's influence shaped law, language, architecture, and governance in… • Italy - The Book of the Dead: A Traveler's Guide
A Traveler's Guide • Ancient Egypt - The Boy King Tutankhamun
Ancient Egypt - The Coptic Church: Egypt's Christian Heritage
Egypt's Christian Heritage • Ancient Egypt - The Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- The Little Samurai
- The Priests and Priestesses of Egypt
Ancient Egypt - The Rise of Vienna as a Musical Capital (1750, Vienna)
The Rise of Vienna as a Musical Capital • 1750s - The Rosetta Stone: Cracking the Code
Cracking the Code • Ancient Egypt - Tiye: Power Behind the Throne
Power Behind the Throne • Ancient Egypt - Vienna, Austria
The Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) was a landmark diplomatic conference that reshaped… • Austria - Walter Benjamin
Philosopher and enduring ideas - Piye's Conquest of Egypt
- The Assyrian Sack of Thebes
- The Battle of Megiddo
- The Conspiracy Against Ramesses III
- The Expulsion of the Hyksos
- The Founding of Akhetaten
- The Restoration of the Gods
- The Strike at Deir el-Medina
- The War of the Sea Peoples