National Geographic History - 05.2019 - 06.2019

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 1 FROM THE EDITOR Amy Briggs, Executive Editor Our cover photograph was taken June 5, 1944, the nigh ...

(^) ÖTZI THE ICEMANCOLD CASE MURDER OF^ CELEBRATIONDIVINE EGYPT’S FABULOUS FEAST OF OPET MARCUS CRASSUSROME’S RICHEST MAN THE GI ...

4 NEWS The discovery of a cavernous, 18th-century icehouse has lifted the lid on how Londoners kept their cool in the time befor ...

NEWS They quickly determined that it was an icehouse, one of the biggest ever found in the city. The egg-shaped cham- ber dates ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 5 estimated 2,000 then in use in the capital, it was much larger than most. The MOLA team determined ...

6 MAY/JUNE 2019 PROFILES Beau Brummell, First Male Fashion Icon Once the toast of London’s early 19th-century social scene, Beau ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 7 his intimates admired and were captivat- ed by Brummell’s aesthetic, quick wit, and charm. Buoyed ...

8 MAY/JUNE 2019 PROFILES boots with champagne. His bathing and dressing ritual, which was sometimes at- tended by the Prince of ...

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10 MAY/JUNE 2019 PROFILES deny the story failed. His impudent and stylish persona sometimes made false- hoods difficult to ident ...

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12 MAY/JUNE 2019 INVENTIONS Sign Language: Meaning in Motion Beginning in the 16th century, clerics and teachers let their finge ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 13 In 1755 the French Catholic priest Charles-Michel de l’Épée established a more comprehensive meth ...

WORK OF ART “LEONARDO’S HORSE,” BASED ON SKETCHES BY LEONARDO DA VINCI, WAS CAST IN BRONZE BY NINA AKAMU IN THE 1990S. STANDING ...

STUDIES OF HORSES DRAWN BY LEONARDO DA VINCI CIRCA 1490, WHEN HE WAS PLANNING “IL GRAN CAVALLO.” COLLECTION OF THE ROYAL LIBRARY ...

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INVESTIGATION: OTZI In 1991 the body of a murdered man was discovered high in the Alps. Killed more than 5,000 years ago, studie ...