Doodle History https://doodlehistory.com/ True stories from history, doodled. New hand-drawn history episode every Thursday. en The Vikings Never Vanished — You Inherited Them https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/vikings/ https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/vikings/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMT Everyone says the Vikings vanished in one bloody week in 1066. They didn't — they won, wearing a new name. This is the real story of the Viking Age… The Inca Empire Wasn't Conquered — It Destroyed Itself https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/inca/ https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/inca/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMT The Inca Empire was the largest state the Americas ever built — around ten million people, forty thousand kilometres of mountain road, no wheel and no… What Really Destroyed the Aztec Empire? (Not Spain) https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/aztec-empire/ https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/aztec-empire/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT The Aztec Empire built the biggest city in the Americas and ruled several million people, then fell in just two years. But the story that a few hundred… The Odyssey: How Much of It Was Actually Real? https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/odyssey/ https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/odyssey/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT Homer's Odyssey is the most famous adventure ever told: a one-eyed giant, a witch who turns men into pigs, a ten-year voyage home. But how much of it was… The Ottoman Empire Killed Rome — Then Killed Itself https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/ottoman/ https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/ottoman/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT The Ottoman Empire began as a tiny band of frontier raiders and grew into the empire that finished the Roman story: in 1453 a twenty-one-year-old sultan… Imperial China Died a Dozen Times and Refused to Stay Dead https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/imperial-china/ https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/imperial-china/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT China is not the oldest unbroken empire on Earth — it is something far stranger. This is the rise and fall of imperial China: an empire that violently… Genghis Khan Started as a Boy Left for Dead https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/mongol-empire/ https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/mongol-empire/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT A starving orphan his own clan abandoned to die on the freezing steppe became the founder of the largest land empire in history. This is the true story of… Ancient Egypt: 3,000 Years Nothing Could Conquer https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/egypt/ https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/egypt/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT For five hundred years, Ancient Egypt wasn't a land of quiet tombs — it was the most powerful war machine on Earth, an empire whose chariots ran from deep… The Roman Empire Took 500 Years to Die https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/rome/ https://doodlehistory.com/episodes/rome/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:34:11 GMT From two abandoned babies and a wolf to the most powerful empire the world had ever seen — and its long, strange fall. This is the complete story of Rome,…