The Chkalovskaya Staircase in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, is a stunning architectural landmark that connects the city to the ...

Historical parallels between Ivan the Terrible’s Oprichnina & modern Russian governance, examining the shift from reform to ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers who lived in the territory of the modern Moscow region systematically cooked viburnum berries along ...

The continental collisions that created this narrow Mideast waterway endowed the region with its petrochemical riches—and ...

From Viking raider to patron saint, a journey through history, mystery, and a 500-year-old cold case. The Youth, the Wild ...

Most people, if asked to name a volcanic eruption that changed history, reach for Krakatoa or Pompeii. The eruption of Laki in Iceland in 1783 belongs on that list, and by some measures it belongs at ...

Dirt roads. No sewer. No running water. Tioga was a town of 456 people built along a railroad, with agriculture serving as ...

The Ptolemaic Dynasty, established by the Macedonian Greek general Ptolemy I Soter, ruled Egypt for almost three centuries.

Interior of the reconstructed Viking Age chieftain's hall (longhouse) at the Lofotr Viking Museum in Borg, Norway. This reconstruction represents the massive high-status farmsteads that defined the ...

The Republic of Georgia claims the oldest archeological evidence of grape wine-making in the world. National Geographic ...

Pasquale Paoli was a “small fish fighting an entire empire.” Four thousand miles away, the founding fathers were watching and ...

In a recent survey that the Council on Foreign Relations conducted, members of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations ranked the Alaska Purchase as the twenty-sixth best decision in ...