In 1929, while renovating the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, a theologian discovered a fragment of gazelle skin that would rewrite the history of cartography. This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart ...

Ecologists have described the mammoth steppe as one of the most productive large-herbivore ecosystems in Earth's history.

The Colossi of Memnon are a pair of giant statues made of stone that are located in the Theban Necropolis in Luxor, Upper Egypt. The statues were made during the 14th century BC, during the period in ...

The long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great, the celebrated monarch who united the Anglo-Saxons against Viking invaders, have reportedly been located beneath a car park in Hampshire. This ...

Archaeologists exploring the Roman-era ruins of Heraclea Sintica in southwestern Bulgaria have made an exceptionally rare ...

In 218 BC, the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca achieved one of military history's most extraordinary feats - leading an ...

For 1,600 years, a once-thriving frontier settlement lay buried beneath Egypt's western desert. Once governed by Byzantine ...

Devetashka cave is an enormous cave in Bulgaria, which has provided shelter for groups of humans since the late Paleolithic era, and continuously for tens of thousands of years since then. Now ...

He came from nowhere and became one of the greatest mysteries of 19th century Germany. On May 26th, 1828 he appeared in the streets of Nuremberg. For the next five years he was a source of ...

This story involved the Franks, a Germanic tribe whose descendants eventually migrated to and ruled parts of what is now modern France, Germany, and Belgium. In a history of the Frankish people, the ...

The Order of Santiago is a Christian religious-military order of knights that was founded in Spain during the Middle Ages. Like the Templars and Hospitallers, the order was established to protect ...

McDonnell sourced the rare sycamore figs from a 1,400-year-old grove from a friend who was also conducting research in Egypt.