Today in History for Feb. 9: ...

Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...

The Byzantine Empire maintained an intriguing relationship with ancient China, thus sending ambassadors there.

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago. The findings, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, ...

History books can only cover so much, and most of us haven’t cracked one open since we were in college. But if you want to ...

In light of recent events, it might be a good time to remember a very simple truth: Nazis are ALWAYS the bad guys.

The role of the first lady takes on different forms throughout history: we retrace it through historical portraits, up to the ...

The lost residence of King Harold, depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, has been found, thanks partly to the previous discovery ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

The idea that the pre-Columbian Amazon was pristine has taken a nose-dive in recent years. Scientists have found several ...

By today’s terminology, Athanasius of Alexandria might be called a “boy genius” or a prodigy. But back in 325 A.D., in his ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.