An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world was ever ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now coastal ... that seeded both the British Empire and the United States.

However, we can say the island really got on the map when it was settled in the mid-7th ... Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries and, indeed, well into the 20th century, Ibiza suffered an ongoing ...

Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...

Hiroshige's vibrant woodcuts capture everyday life, landscapes, and culture during a transformational era in Japan.

Between superheroes and super friends, ballet dancers and a champion bulldog, this week’s picks bring a cast of characters worth getting to know. “Hymn” is getting some of the best reviews in town. It ...

A coin stash worth more than $340,000 could have been hidden in the hills of the Czech Republic during one of the 20th ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy. pharmaphorum looks at its evolution over the centuries. The roots of the ...

So in the 4th century, they created a rival festival to mark Jesus' birth: Christmas. The Bible doesn't explicitly state the date on which Jesus was born, and many theologians place his birth in ...