The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece joined forces to take on the mighty Persian Empire. After the defeat and death ...

Google Maps saves your past travel data to a personal ... users were prompted to make decisions about keeping their existing history, which was anxiety-inducing enough by itself — who wants ...

Demilitarized zones—from Vietnam to Korea, Cyprus and Antarctica—require tourists to look beyond what exists and to find the real stories in what doesn’t Behind the dreamy scenery of the HBO ...

History’s first city, at least according to the ancient text known as the Sumerian King List found on a clay tablet, was also ...

Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to ...

Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the ...

Sandra Demontigny, 45, pushed Quebec to become one of the few places in the world to allow people to choose a medically assisted death sometimes years in advance. Luke Ching has made a name for ...

In a significant stride toward heritage preservation, Zhangye in Northwest China's Gansu province has embarked on the "Two ...

this series of short films offers a comprehensive overview of World War Two for primary schools. These short films are suitable for teaching history at KS2 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists have unearthed a bronze cannon in Arizona, directly linked to the legendary expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado. This artifact, found in the Santa ...

For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world. Show more Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past.

ROME — Pope Francis hit the three-week mark Friday in his hospitalization for double pneumonia, in stable condition, receiving therapy but not necessarily improving, after giving the world a ...