The town is the oldest in the country and was the capital for several hundred years, with wealthy merchants flocking to the ...

Discover the Cederberg Wilderness, a remote and untamed region in South Africa’s Western Cape. This ultra-high-definition ...

The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...

They can be cold and ominous, and can feel like you're exploring an entirely different world or some far-off planet. While ...

The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds. Ángel Jiménez del Aguila, who died in 2010, need only follow the trail of ...

There are an estimated 3 million undiscovered shipwrecks lining the sea floor. In June 2025, divers discovered a 2,000-year-old wreck in Turkey.

The seal is thought to be from the same time period when Assyria conquered Judah and made it a vassal state required to pay the Assyrian king.

In Egypt, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the largest museum in the world dedicated to ancient Egyptian civilization, was ...

Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the birth of Billy Graham, Pliny Fisk leaving for the Middle East and the London Missionary Society holding its first meeting ...

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High school students were exempted from their final history exam after teachers spent a year teaching them about the wrong Roman emperor.