In Libya, again open to U.S. travelers after more than two decades, archaeologists have uncovered spectacular mosaics of the glories of Rome
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On the 40th anniversary of the wartime leader’s death, historians are reassessing the complex figure who carried Britain through its darkest hour
Things are not always what they seem
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A rare Burmese ruby memorializes a philanthropic woman
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From keeping tabs on the Taliban to saving puppies, a reporter looks back on her three years covering a nation’s struggle to be reborn
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In Uganda, tens of thousands of children have been abducted, 1.6 million people herded into camps and thousands of people killed
A new exhibition probes the contradictions of an advanced civilization that practiced human sacrifice
In Vilnius, Lithuania, preservationists are creating a living memorial to the nation’s 225,000 Holocaust victims
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The Vikings: A Memorable Visit to America
The Icelandic house of what is likely the first European-American baby has scholars rethinking the Norse sagas
For more than a decade, American Robert Graf has combed the waters of a Seychelles island for a multimillion-dollar booty stashed by pirates 300 years ago
A North Vietnamese battlefield defeat that led to victory, the Tet Offensive still triggers debate nearly four decades later
En route to Vietnam in the 1960s, American G.I.’s recorded their hopes and fears on the canvas undersides of troopship sleeping berths
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Digging for Jefferson’s Lost Courthouse
Archaeologists in Virginia found the footprint of a red brick building lost in the mid-19th century
A century and a half ago, Britain’s Roger Fenton pioneered the art of war photography
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When Major Leaguer Eddie Grant Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
The Harvard-trained lawyer and professional baseball player Eddie Grant volunteered to serve in World War I. He fought as he’d played: selflessly
Tolstoy Does “Oprah”
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They fled terror in Laos after secretly aiding American forces in the Vietnam War. Now 200,000 Hmong prosper-and struggle-in the United States
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Francis Scott Key, the Reluctant Patriot
The Washington lawyer was an unlikely candidate to write the national anthem; he was against America’s entry into the War of 1812 from the outset
Seven hundred years ago, William Tell shot an arrow through an apple on his son’s head and launched the struggle for Swiss independence. Or did he?
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No Bob Costas? Why the Ancient Olympics Were No Fun to Watch
Spectators braved all manner of discomfort—from oppressive heat to incessant badgering by vendors—to witness ancient Greece’s ultimate pagan festival
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