These pictures peek into the daily life of Iraq, mostly Baghdad, between 1940s and 1980s. A time of relative peace and prosperity for the country.

President Donald Trump proclaimed Nov. 9 as "World Freedom Day," to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

Historian and educator Jason Goetz looks to the classics as a means for our culture to survive. As ...

Cao Jie is an obscure character in Chinese history compared to his illustrious great-grandson, the ruler Cao Cao, ...

The People's Republic celebrates lifting over 80 million people out of poverty. But it was the CCP that ...

The Azores archipelago is about 1,000 miles off the coast of Europe, about a third of the way to North ...

Underwater archaeologists made an extremely rare discovery at the world-famous Antikythera shipwreck site in Greece—the 2,000-year-old remains of ...

The first skeleton has been found amidst the Antikythera Shipwreck, and researchers hope to extract DNA evidence from ...

Aqueducts and man-made wells built about 1,500 years ago in Peru by the Nazca people are still in ...

Ancient Mayan and Chinese calendar systems share so many similarities, it is unlikely they developed independently, according to ...

Archaeologists in Austria have announced the discovery of a pair of rare mammoth tusks estimated to be around ...

Paleontologists with the University of Washington’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture have made a major discovery. ...

The word "serendipity" has many pop-culture references, but many people don't know its original meaning or realize its ...

Chivalry-Now is a movement that introduces a new form of chivalry for the 21st century. Founder Dean Jacques ...

On Friday, UNESCO announced it has inscribed nine new sites on its World Heritage List.

An ancient tablet dated to around 5,000 years ago from an area called Uruk in Mesopotamia--located in present-day ...

Unlike some cities, the Spanish capital of Madrid doesn't smack you over the head with what it has ...

To residents of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, the most beloved icon of the community is an oak tree. The ...

In 1901, divers exploring off the coast of Greece came upon a vast sunken treasure, and amidst the ...

A tourist attraction, this giant boulder balances on a small surface area on the slope of a hill. ...

Using satellite data and drones, researchers say they've found a large monument in the ancient city of Petra, ...

A mysterious inscription on a mysterious artifact has been theorized by some to be Cherokee, Semitic, or Welsh, ...

Ancient Chinese brewed beer 5,000 years ago using similar technology that we use today.

A story passed down in my family for generations may be the clue to finding a lost Norse ...

People who visit ancient temples and megalithic sites often describe experiencing a strange sensation.

Some rather interesting ancient discoveries have been made in the waters near Caesarea, Israel over the years. However, ...

Materialism and psychical research are often viewed as antithetical. But psychic phenomena and the occult have been with ...