Plus: A DNA surprise in a famed Viking grave; Madame Tussaud's "chamber of horrors"; Spain's baby-jumping festival
| Extraordinary people, discoveries, and places | |
 | | BRIDGEMAN/ACI | | | Who was the real man in the iron mask? | | Rumors of a mysterious prisoner during the reign of King Louis XIV became legend after Alexandre Dumas wrote his famous tale. His true identity remains a subject of speculation. | | | |
 | | ILLUSTRATION COURTESY UPPSALA UNIVERSITY | | | The famous Viking warrior who turned out to be a woman | | The DNA study sent ripples of surprise through the archaeology world. While Viking lore had long hinted that not all warriors were men, some scientists had considered these female warriors to be merely mythological embellishments—a belief colored by modern expectations of gender roles. | | | |
 | COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
| | | The best map of the most mapped city in the world | | Created by a 19th century archaeologist, this 100-year-old map—which is almost as tall as a two-story building—documents Rome in meticulous detail, from its ancient past through the end of the 19th century. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY NICK GAMMON, ALAMY STOCK PHOTO | | | Once a year in this Spanish village, devils run wild | | Red and yellow-masked "devils" run through the streets hurling insults at villagers and whipping them with a horsetail attached to a stick. When drums announce the arrival of the "pious men," the flight of the devil begins. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY LAURENT BALLESTA | | | A rare look inside a feeding frenzy | | This photographer and his team spent four years trying to document this amazing, mysterious spectacle, diving day and night into a 115-foot-deep channel. Here is what they saw. | | | |
 | [My fear] has given way to exhilaration—the exhilaration of learning to venture, without cages or chain mail suits or even shark billies, into a giant shark pack.
Laurent Ballesta, writer and photographer | | From: A rare look inside a feeding frenzy | | |
 | PHOTOGRAPH BY CONSOLE/TOPICAL PRESS AGENCY, GETTY IMAGES
| | | The gory history behind Madame Tussaud's waxworks | | As a forced show of loyalty to the French Revolution, artist Marie Tussaud was ordered to create death masks of the guillotined aristocrats of the former monarchy, including her onetime employers: King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Business boomed. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY GLASSHOUSE IMAGES, ALAMY STOCK PHOTO | | | The evolution of the human scream | | A recent study mapped out the diversity of our shrieks and wails, raising questions about the evolution of this primal vocalization. | | | |
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