When Mikhail Devyataev was captured and put into a concentration camp, instead of sitting by, he conspired to actually steal ...

When a crashed German Junkers Ju-88 goes down over England in a bombing raid during the Battle of Britain, a strange story ...

The first ever map in the Bible revolutionised map-making despite being printed the wrong way round, a new study reveals.

We often hear fascinating stories about how things originated: the universe, the wheel, even pizza. But when it comes to the ...

The advisor to the Iranian Supreme Leader, Dr. Ali Velayati, went to extreme lengths in trivializing the lives of Lebanese people. He borrowed from religious text books to narrowly tailor his ...

Between 1837 and 1842, The Baltimore Sun ran nearly a dozen editorials pressing hard (if at times slyly or with ...

One of the most well-known markets in Germany, Cologne’s Kölner Dom sits in the shadow of the imposing, Unesco-listed ...

Untouched by looters and sealed for centuries, the sarcophagus was found with its stone lid still fixed in place, secured by ...

Cutting trade ties with Pakistan is easier said than done: the neighbouring country is Afghanistan’s largest single trading ...

A new anti-immigration group in Indiana, Save Heritage Indiana, is being compared to the 1920s Ku Klux Klan. The author argues that Indiana's history is rich with contributions from various immigrant ...

OP-ED. While major tech leaders claim to see Ancient Rome as a moral and political model, it is likely because the ...

Artifacts (left to right) such as a chalcedony cameo depicting the god Dionysus, and a glass gem showing a wounded child of the mortal Niobe, a glass bead with an image of a sacred bull, probably made ...