The crossword puzzle turns 100 this week -- here's how it rose to popularity
When jihadists overran Timbuktu last year, residents mounted a secret operation to evacuate the town’s irreplaceable medieval manuscripts
Fifty years after he was introduced to the world, the Doctor's influence is bigger on the inside
Tool of the devil, harmless family game—or fascinating glimpse into the non-conscious mind?
Art historian and author Paul Koudounaris elucidates the macabre splendor and tragic history of Europe’s catacomb saints
In Albania, the revival of a 15th-century code has trapped families in multigenerational blood feuds
A new exhibition at Natural History explores the ancient craft in a modern world
Narcis Monturiol loved the ocean’s corals so much, that he built a machine so he could better enjoy them
The first European to glimpse the Pacific from the Americas crossed Panama on foot 500 years ago. Our intrepid author retraces his journey
A furtive antiquarian nicknamed Stoney Jack was responsible for almost every major archaeological find made in London between 1895 and 1939
The nouveau riche of the Gilded Age had buckets of money but little social standing—until they started marrying their daughters to British nobles
Mary Burns exposed the capitalist's son to the plight of the working people of Manchester
As the faithful flock to the Bayreuth Festival in his bicentennial year, the spellbinding German composer continues to fascinate, inspire and infuriate
In the medieval period, the Middle East was home to many of the world's wealthiest cities—and to a large proportion of its most desperate criminals
Who was “Monseiur Leborgne”?
A tribesman who led a doomed revolt against Japan in 1669 still inspires new generations of Ainu nationalists
Aimee Semple McPherson was an American phenomenon even before she went missing for five weeks in 1926.
A new documentary shares the story of the 23rd unit’s daring deceptions
From prehistory to the present with many episodes in between, the region has a surprisingly meaty history of humans eating humans
Was the man whose assassination began World War I riding in a car destined to bring death to a series of owners?
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