In Spring 1804, four Spanish frigates set sail for home from Montevideo to Cádiz. In October a British squadron sank the Mercedes off Portugal's shores. A new era of deep-sea exploration is uncovering some historic shipwrecks. But who gets the spoils? Mystery of the Black Swan.
Read here about the new, chilling mystery of Rome’s jigsaw skeleton. Police are hunting a 'bone collector' after the discovery in Rome of a skeleton made from five different bodies.
(on The Telegraph web site).
An audacious museum heist, in which a unique timepiece made for Queen Marie Antoinette was among the haul worth hundreds of millions of dollars, left police clutching at thin air. It was only when the watch turned up 25 years later that the pieces of the jigsaw began to fall into place. Read more about The Queen, her Watch and the Master Burglar… …
(on The Telegraph web site).
When villagers at Civitavecchia witnessed tears of blood falling down the face of a souvenir Madonna, they proclaimed it a miracle. But soon, experts were branding it a cunning hoax and a row ensued. It's a familiar pattern in Italy, and beyond. What is the truth of such apparitions? Read about the Crying Game.
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