In For the Love of History, TK is your guide to the past as we uncover the people, events, and little-known-facts hidden in the shadows of your old history textbooks. From empress baddies to activist profiles, turkey gods and the history of the toothbrush, tattoos, Pompeii peepees, and everything in between, you can find it all here. There is no telling how far we'll dig or how many "historical facts" we'll reexamine. No event too small and no topic too big, because this is For The Love of History.

The first Empress Baddie of the season, well kind of. In this week's time travel trip to the past we combine our two loves women's history and tattoo history to explore the incredibly recent discovery of Lady Cao, a possible Peruvian queen. Why do I say possible? Well you'll just have to tune into the episode to find out!

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