A new book details the lives of Melisende of Jerusalem, Zumurrud of Damascus and their powerful peers
Fed up with the lies and anti-Semitism, a California businessman partnered with a lawyer to prove that the murder of 6 million Jews was established fact
Historic artifacts meet 21st-century technology in a blockbuster touring exhibition centered on the 19th-Dynasty pharaoh
Unable to bear the shame of being captured as a prisoner of war, Shoichi Yokoi hid in the jungles of Guam until January 1972
The Ipogeo dei Cristallini's well-preserved tombs will open to the public as soon as summer 2022
For two centuries, diplomat Thomas Bruce has been held up as a shameless plunderer. The real history is more complicated, argues the author of a new book
Over the centuries, Brunhild and Fredegund were dismissed and even parodied. But a new book shows how they outwitted their enemies like few in history
In its time, the Assyrian capital faced waves of invasions and abandonment. Now a small team of archaeologists are protecting it from more modern threats
A historian traces the tradition's links to space travel, the Doomsday Clock and Alfred Hitchcock
The year's most exciting discoveries include a Viking "piggy bank," a lost Native American settlement and a secret passageway hidden behind a bookshelf
Released in Japan 50 years ago, the portable meal proved to be one of the biggest transpacific business success stories of all time
New research reveals the feasibility of the infamous execution method
Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and help explain how the U.S. got to where it is today
Reintroduced to Wanuskewin Heritage Park in 2019, the animals' hooves uncovered four 1,000-year-old rock carvings
Conceptions of the medieval Crusades tend to lump disparate movements together, ignoring the complexity and diversity of these military campaigns
A new book by journalist Lina Zeldovich traces the management of human waste—and underscores poop's potential as a valuable resource
Harriet Martineau took control of her medical care, defying the male-dominated establishment’s attempts to dismiss her as hysterical and fragile
Centuries after Italian poet Dante published "The Divine Comedy," Romantic artists and writers reimagined the tragedy as a tale of female agency
The mythical beasts were often cast as agents of the devil or demons in disguise
A British aristocrat looking for the Ark of the Covenant launched history's most peculiar archaeological dig—and set off a crisis in the Middle East
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