About Wonders & Marvels

Wonders & Marvels is an independent publication of researched essays on the history of science, medicine, invention, archaeology and culture. We look for stories people repeat, then check them against the best evidence we can find, and we tell readers plainly where the evidence runs out.

This is a new publication on a previously used domain

The domain wondersandmarvels.com previously hosted a different history blog, run by different people, with its own contributors. That site is no longer operating. The current publication is a separate, newly operated project. We are not its successor in any editorial sense, we have no permission or endorsement from its former editors or writers, and none of them work with us.

Because other websites still link to some of that blog's old addresses, we have published new, original articles at a small number of those addresses where we could research the same subject properly. Those articles are written from scratch. We do not copy, paraphrase or reconstruct the earlier site's text, and we do not reuse its images. Old addresses without a new article return a standard "not found" page.

Who writes here

Articles currently carry the byline of the Wonders & Marvels Research Desk. We use AI tools to help research and draft. Each article lists every source it relies on, marks disputed points, and keeps a public corrections log. Our editorial standards explain how this works and what we will not do.

Medical and health topics

Our medical articles are history. They describe what physicians and patients believed and did in the past. Nothing here is medical advice.

Contact

Email editor@wondersandmarvels.com, or see the contact page.