Livius Drusus

Joined: Mar 30, 2015

Born in Connecticut and raised in Rome, Italy, livius drusus embraced destiny and became a history nerd from a very early age. A BA in History and English ensued. With the dawn of the Internet, that kid reading Bullfinch's Mythology under the covers with a flashlight long after bedtime transmuted into the bleary-eyed obsessive spending entire lost weekends following links down historical rabbitholes. The results of those benders are posted daily on TheHistoryBlog.com.

It's like hitting the lottery, but with trowels.

Cooks of yore had some interesting advice on how to prepare a turkey.

Pictures of disguises in Dosi’s scrapbook via Getty Images

Sergeant No. 97 was detailed to the Board of Education, where she enforced child labor, truancy, and compulsory education laws.

Intentional cranial deformation has been recorded on almost every continent over tens of thousands of years.

If this man were smart, he’d be heading into Rome’s Cloaca Maxima to look for archaeological treasures buried among the ancient poop.

Among its many fine qualities, human waste gives archaeologists a wealth of information about people's daily lives—and reveals the occasional treasure or two.

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, ca 1503-1506. Photo by C2RMF via the History Blog

The rescue required a dedicated team, some crafty moves, and an ambulance with a stretcher.

Naples National Archeological Museum via The History Blog

These horses, eels, elephants, and more were deeply loved in life and immortalized by history after death.

No matter how much you're hurting, avoid these historical home cures.

Before toxicology tests and forensic pathology, stories of mysterious poisons with chameleon-like properties abounded.

The human body is full of weird, gross and awe-inspiring stuff as we know it—but for people who lived when ideas were unbound by strict anatomical correctness, it was even more so. Here are 10 things people thought, and in some cases still think, were inh