A history buff set out to discover the location of two mysterious features marked on an 1850s Ordnance Survey map.

It is clear that the sprawling city of Teotihuacan near Mexico City was a major metropolis of the ancient world, but what do ...

ROME (AP) — The man who just took charge of Rome’s top tourist attraction wants to set the record straight: the Colosseum won ...

New archaeological research challenges long-held assumptions about why ancient hunter-gatherers built the monumental earthworks at Poverty Point in Louisiana some 3,500 years ago. Rather than serving ...

Uncover the complex history of Halloween—from ancient Celtic rituals to modern-day trick-or-treating shaped by imperialism, ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

The 44th edition of the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) will welcome Greece as its Guest of Honour, bringing one of ...

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Experts in biblical history say Zionists and their backers are ignoring inconvenient truths about the history of Israel.

Karl Marx was a visionary, but his vision was not based on objective reality. Your author, the eminent and all-knowing Rob Smith—soothsaying sage and cosmic psychic—is also a visionary. Hi ...

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Many of the Greeks living in the Pontic Alps and nearby Black Sea coast chose to relocate to Greece, including the monks of ...