As British colonists seized Indigenous land in 19th-century New Zealand, the Māori fought to protect their ancestral territory and political authority.

Odysseus faced the cyclops, his men turned into pigs, and he sailed between a six-headed monster and a whirlpool. Each of these, it turns out, have potential real-life explanations.

A generation after casu marzu was banned across Europe, artisanal cheesemakers in Sardinia still elevate the controversial technique into a culinary art form.