Sentence examples for historical puzzle from inspiring English sources

"This is a historical puzzle we're putting together here," Ms. Enck said.

"There is a historical puzzle to work out," says Michael Sandel, a professor of government at Harvard.

If this is your mental picture of the rise of Islam, dimly remembered from some long-ago history lesson, take note: it is in almost every respect wrong.Hugh Kennedy sets out to explain an historical puzzle.

He was the son and successor of Akhenaten, the controversial reform pharaoh who ruled from about 1351 to 1334 B.C. Another achievement of the study was the first positive identification of Akhenaten's mummy, a historical puzzle in its own right.

With history buffs and curious neighbors looking on, an archaeologist directed the excavation of the Bowens' lawn in search of a 201-year-old grave and, possibly, the resolution of a long-standing historical puzzle.

At a time when philosophy has for the most part settled down to a quiet life of academic distinction of little interest to nonprofessionals, the conditions under which such extravagant claims could be maintained form an interesting historical puzzle.

But there are historical puzzles to be pondered, as well, and that's where the old map and the graduate student figure in.

Ancestry.com was not asked to research the backgrounds of Cumberbatch and Doyle, said a spokesman who added that its researchers love both the series and historical puzzles.

Those two cryptic letters flitted around for years in the storage area of my brain taken up by old B-movie actors whose names elude me, books I intend to read but have never gotten around to and unsolved historical puzzles like the origin of bouillabaisse, which a faithful correspondent demands that I credit to the Greeks.

A lawyer who has written a book about conspiracies says such theories apply a sensible narrative to troubling historical puzzles like the Kennedy killing, which was the first to mesmerize the entire nation on television.

It's a wonderful historical jigsaw puzzle and perfect to be read side by side.