Henry VIII is not remembered as a loving husband. Any English schoolchild can recount the unpleasant fates of most of his six wives with the rhyme: “Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, ...

In the Heaning Wood Bone Cave near Great Urswick, Cumbria, in 2023, archaeologists unearthed ...

Gunston Hall, “the Home of American Rights,” has a new leader, Dr. Christopher Eck, who started as executive director in January at this historic site on Mason Neck in southeastern Fairfax County.

In a BBC archive clip, archaeologist Howard Carter describes the moment on 12 February 1924 when he and his team became the first people in 3,300 years to meet the Egyptian boy king.

Australia police recover trove of ancient Egyptian artefacts stolen during museum heist - Looted artefacts include 2,600-year-old wooden cat figurine, a mummy mask and an ancient necklace ...

But Goliath wasn’t the only biblical reference to giants.

Arts, entertainment, film, festivals and more events happening this week in the greater Capital Region from Thursday, Feb. 19, through Wednesday, Feb. 25 ...

The largest of four fifteenth-century tapestries, known collectively as the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, takes falconry as its subject. Lovers are depicted strolling arm-in-arm as their birds hunt ...

The University community is recognizing Black History Month with scholarly programs spanning the month, opening with a ...

Finding out what actually happened in the deep past can be a slog, so when ancient history is packaged as mystery—spine-tingling but solvable—it’s hard to resist. Who doesn’t want to know how a lost ...

The Prince of Wales is heading to Saudi Arabia for a historic royal tour, with the visit pledged to be a "sign of good ...

In Manhattan, designer Young Huh conjures the spirit of Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, dressing a four-story townhouse with cinematic color.