History

The remains are the biggest and most complete Ichthyosaur skeleton ever found in the UK The fossilised remains of a ten metre long ichthyosaur – also known as a ‘sea dragon’ – have been found…

Billed as “the oldest masks in the world,” a creepy collection of 9,000-year-old stone faces is now display in Israel. With stilted smiles and large eyeholes, the artifacts are thought to have represented the spirits…

Archaeologists in Mexico City said Friday they have found another section of 119 skulls that were part of the Aztec capital’s main trophy rack of sacrificed humans. A five-year dig under old buildings near Mexico…

But the Microsoft co-founder hopes next summer will start to resemble normalcy. With coronavirus vaccinations beginning in the US on Monday, many Americans may at long last be feeling as if the nation has turned a corner…

Usama bin Laden wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama so that the “totally unprepared” Joe Biden would take over as president and plunge the United States “into a crisis,” according to documents seized from bin…

‘When I do decide to marry, I would prefer someone like me – a lady who wears a bustle and feathers in her hat, and who could accompany me with her singing as I play…

More than 2000 years ago, the Roman Empire invented a unique marine concrete that allowed for the construction of enormous, durable structures – even underwater. Incredibly, the exact chemical properties of this concrete mixture have…

A Colosseum is a large building, like a stadium or theatre, which is used for entertainment, sports and others. The picture shows once such ancient amphitheater in Rome, but it is neither carving nor real…

Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, is one of only nine colleges chartered before the American Revolution. It awarded the first PhD degree on American soil in 1861. Its library is the third largest…

Writing historical novels sometimes takes me to strange places – back in June, I accepted an invitation to do a book-signing at the fabulous Yale Bookstore near Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut. This…