Stories by Vigier

Can Archaeology Dogs Smell Ancient Time?

Urban Gilgamesh: What the earliest epic tells us about living in an ancient city

In the 18th century, new thinking about what it meant to be male and female

Vicodin, ketamine, and caffeine: The ingredients of a good space pharmacy

Did the Italians Teach the French the Art of the Vinaigrette?

The China tea trade was a paradox of global capitalism

A Tale of Two Plagiarists (2019)

Remembering the heyday of an early form of Parisian mass transit

The 1700s Plague Cure That Inspired an Uncannily Contemporary Cocktail

The Rise and Fall of Facts (2019)

When the medium matters: The mighty mantis shrimp pulls its punch in air

A trashed Italian manuscript got sewn into a sweet silk purse

People of Las Vegas

What Neapolitans understand about death (better than most)

Tales from the Archives: Explaining Sonlessness in Sixteenth-Century China

A Tale of Plagues: The Plague was not just a medieval illness

Why Historical Analogy Matters

Asylum patient whose art documented his sterilisation by the Nazis

The Historian of Moral Revolution

Cache of Crypto-Jewish Recipes Dating to Inquisition Found in Miami Kitchen

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