In the first century BC, nearly two thousand years before the invention of the microscope, the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro made a r...
For centuries, travellers to the southern tip of South America returned with astonishing stories. They spoke of a land swept by fierce winds...
In the early hours of April 27, 1865, a steamboat packed with nearly two thousand exhausted Union soldiers drifted northward on the Mississi...
Most wartime diaries are written on paper. Some are scribbled in notebooks or loose sheets and hidden beneath floorboards, or tucked inside ...
Nearly two centuries ago, a strange hill rose above the flat landscape of London's East End. It stood high enough to appear on maps, ser...
Nearly a century before the Vietnam War, the United States undertook one of its first military interventions in East Asia. It was not a full...
During the medieval period and early modern Japan, decapitation was a common method of execution for criminals and defeated enemy warriors. ...
Scattered across Florence, in the narrow streets, is a curious architectural feature that many visitors walk past without noticing. Set into...
Long before the first commercial oil wells appeared in North America, Chinese engineers had already mastered the art of drilling deep into t...
Not all forms of communication are based on speech or writing. Just as the Inca encoded information in strings and knots known as quipus , a...
