The concubine who became China’s last empress
A history of climbing the world's tallest mountain
Momentous or Merely Memorable
Assigned to find art looted by the Nazis, Western Allied forces faced an incredible challenge
A modern museum of ancient Greece rises near the Parthenon
Restoration of the 2,500-year-old temple is yielding new insights into the engineering feats of the golden age's master builders
Momentous or Merely Memorable
On his voyage to the Americas in 1492, the explorer built a small fort somewhere in the Caribbean
Keeping Cool in Cretaceous Australia and melting-pot Marseille
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's defining moment comes to life in an excerpt from Michael Korda's best-selling new biography
The ten most significant discoveries in the past 20 years
A Q&A with hieroglyphs expert Janice Kamrin
An Egyptologist explains the importance of the artifact
Amenhotep III was succeeded by one of the first known monotheists
Discovering the grandeur of the monument built 3,400 years ago
Political historian Jeremi Suri has come up with a new way of looking at the links between the low and the mighty
Momentous or merely memorable
Investigating London's famous police force and some of its most infamous cases
The country's global adventurism in the 16th century linked continents and cultures as never before, as a new exhibition makes clear
Dubbed the "Eighth Wonder of the World," the room that once symbolized peace was stolen by Nazis then disappeared for good
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