Scientists believe that a cave east of Athens was a hideout for lions which roamed the ancient Greek countryside thousands of ...

Full of culture and some of the world’s most diverse wildlife, an African vacation offers more than meets the eye. The African continent is the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous ...

Forty-five years after the outbreak of the Berber Spring of 1980 and the savage and inhumane repression that followed, as ...

The story of the National Museum – taken over by armed men, its gold and valuables looted and stolen – mirrors the individual ...

From hilltop citadels to fortified coastal enclaves, we've scoured the world to find the most captivating walled cities, and ...

Pyrrhus arrived in Italy in 280 BC with 20,000 infantry, 3,000 cavalry, 2,000 archers, 500 slingers, and 20 war elephants.

Prince Borivoj of the Premyslid Dynasty (probably) started building Prague Castle in AD 880, and over the centuries various ...

When we think of the lost wax process, the images that perhaps come to mind are Ancient Greek bronze sculptures or the works ...

The Sudan National Museum (pictured here before it was looted) is home to important pieces from ancient Nubian civilisations ... the Blue Nile and White Nile rivers – it told a story of the ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean ...

No fossilised pangolin tracks had been recorded anywhere in the world until a track was found in South Africa, dated to ...