Corrections and Fact-Checking
This page records every substantive correction made to an article on Tales From Time, with the date and what changed.
It exists because I write and edit this site alone, which means there is nobody standing between a mistake of mine and you. The least I can do is keep the mistakes visible.
What gets logged
Anything that changes what an article claims. A wrong date, a misattributed source, a translation I read incorrectly, a conclusion I stated more firmly than the evidence supports.
What does not get logged
Typographical fixes, broken links, and small clarifications of wording that leave the meaning unchanged. These are made quietly, because a log full of comma repairs makes the real corrections harder to find.
How to report an error
Email sauravsinha@talesfromtime.com, or use the contact form and choose the correction option. Tell me which article, which passage, and what you think is wrong. A source helps but is not required. You do not need to be a specialist and you do not need to be polite about it.
Corrections are opened before anything else in the inbox. If you are right, I will fix the article, log it here, and credit you by name unless you would rather I did not.
If I think you are not right, I will tell you why rather than ignoring the message.
The log
9 October 2026
- Robin Hood: How England Built an Outlaw. The article said the earliest ballads never show Robin giving to the poor. A Gest of Robyn Hode ends by saying he did poor men much good. Corrected.
- Cleopatra: The Legend and the Person. A table said Plutarch reports no marks on her body. He says no snake was found and that faint marks were reported on her arm. Corrected.
- Source lists, nine articles. Encyclopaedia Britannica entries were removed from the source lists of El Dorado, the Mongol Empire, the Fall of Constantinople, Medusa, the Nazca Lines, the Silk Road, Aksum, Atlantis and the Library of Alexandria, because the Editorial Policy does not allow articles to rest on encyclopaedia entries. The policy now also says that official bodies such as WHO and UNESCO are named where they are the source of a modern figure.
8 October 2026
- The Great Fire of Rome. the homepage teaser claimed the story rested on archaeology as well as Tacitus. The article cites Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio and no archaeology. The teaser now describes what the article actually says.
- Cleopatra: The Legend and the Person. the introduction called Plutarch a contemporary source. He wrote more than a century after her death. Corrected to say he is the one ancient writer who discusses her looks in any detail.
- Archimedes: Four Famous Stories, Assessed. (1) a FAQ answer said his theoretical works survive in his own hand; nothing of his survives in his own hand, only later Greek copies. (2) The introduction said the death story appears in no source within two hundred years; Livy already reports it. What appears later is the famous last words.
- Spartacus: What the Romans Actually Wrote Down. the introduction said two sources could not agree how he died and that the man who beat him tried to bury the credit. The article itself says Plutarch and Appian both report he fell in the final battle, and that it was Pompey who claimed the credit from Crassus. The introduction now matches the article.
- Ashoka: The Emperor Who Confessed on Stone. the identification of the king on the edicts was said to come from an inscription in Sri Lanka. It came from the Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles (the Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa), and was settled by a Maski edict found in 1915 that names him.
- Alexander: The Twelve Years That Rearranged the World. a FAQ answer gave his reign as about thirteen years while the title and introduction said twelve. Corrected to twelve years and about eight months, autumn 336 BCE to June 323 BCE.
- King Arthur: History, Legend, or Both?. the answer to “Was Excalibur real?” described the sword in the stone instead. It now covers Caliburnus in Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1136) and the later French name Excalibur.
- The Trojan War. retitled from “The Shocking Untold Story of the Trojan War”, which promised a revelation the article does not make. The address is unchanged.