A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

Odd cartographic creations like ‘Fool’s Cap Map of the World,’ ‘Leo Belgicus,’ and ‘The Porcineograph’ make the classic ...

A partnership between RIT history department, RIT Press, and the Rochester Public Library relaunched the Rochester History ...

The Marlette Flume was hardly Nevada’s only 19th-century engineering wonder: the Silver State’s rise was built on ambitious ...

An award-winning lateral house in a charming London suburb is on sale for £7.5 million (US$9.7 million). The house in London’s quaint Belsize Park neighborhood has a 1860s traditional Arts and ...

“I understand they have 19th century policies of McKinley, but they need to have a 21st century understanding of the economy,” Khanna (D-Calif) said on CBS’ “Face the Nation, referencing ...

Since the beginning of the 19th century, the United States has suffered six economic depressions—which I define as six or more quarters of sustained economic contraction, although there is no ...

PARIS: As the world reels from US President Donald Trump’s tariffs onslaught, here is a look back at some major trade wars since the 19th century: In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the ...

Gearhart explained how he developed a 17th-century map of Northumberland County, based on original land patents from 1636 to about 1680. He addressed some of the challenges and discoveries of his ...

In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a ...

He is all about power politics in a crude and blustering way that is a disturbing and dangerous throwback to the 19th century. The danger of dividing the world into loosely defined “spheres of ...