January
09
/ 2022
In this top story overview, we highlight our most read articles this week, including a look at the Erkling, a strange mythical snatcher of children, and the fascinating mythology and superstitions around mirrors. Among our most popular this week were also three breaking news stories – the recovery of the shattered skeletons of a man and dog in Turkey who died thousands of years ago by the force of a huge tsunami, the digital unwrapping of the 3,500-year-old mummy of Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing his face for the first time, and the discovery of the Clotilda wreck, the last known active slave ship in the United States. The Erlking: The Powerful Germanic Mythical Snatcher of Children [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"93213","attributes":{"alt":"In this painting
