In the 16th century, ruthless Cossack mercenaries spearheaded Imperial Russia's bloody conquest of Siberia, driven by the ...

The Munich Agreement was a treaty written and signed in 1938 by Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Adolf Hitler of Germany, Edouard Daladier of France, and Benito Mussolini of Italy. Chamberlain ...

Challenging the popular belief about where the words “crap” and “crapper” come from, reality holds a few surprises!

The C-47 Skytrain featured intelligent design features that made it an integral part of World War II’s Allied military ...

While Greek myth is fascinating and compelling to a variety of audiences, a lot of this fascination comes from its shocking horror and violence. One of the most compelling Greek myths is the story of ...

Minerva and the Triumph of Jupiter, a depiction of Zeus and Athena in Olympus, after the Roman names of the gods, painting by Rene Antoine Houasse Bell Krater depicting Dionysus with a Satyr and ...

As a site of great significance for three world religions, the Levant has been subject to brutal wars over the centuries. When Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade in 1095, the main target was ...

2nd Bank of the United States, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1818, Library of Congress; View of the Valhalla near Regensburg, Leo von Klenze, 1836, Hermitage Museum The Parthenon of Acropolis in the Greek ...

While Mesopotamia is widely regarded as the cradle of civilization, it is clear that civilization was happening long before the Sumerians built their cities along the Tigris and Euphrates. Human ...

When considering the Pennsylvania Dutch, you may think of a specific aesthetic: Amish men wearing straw hats, plain clothes, and driving a buggy. It is easy to wonder how cultures like that of the ...

A bronze collar tag for a slave with a Latin inscription, the translation is as follows: “Hold me so that I do not escape and return me to my master Viventius on the estate of Callistus,” 4th century ...

The story of Sundiata is perhaps West Africa’s best known epic poem. Across time and place, cultures have told and retold stories of great heroes, formidable villains, and exciting adventures, and ...