The director of a Catholic aid organization that assists Eastern Christians warns of continued persecution against Armenians ...

The theory gathered pace and was further promoted by American Army officer John Cleves Symmes during the early 19th ... century map and modern pictures of pyramids confirm a lost civilisation lies ...

Despite the vast reach of the Ottoman Empire, from North Africa to Eastern Europe, one powerful neighbor remained unconquered: Persia. In this video, we explore the reasons why the Ottomans never ...

Selim I transformed the Ottoman Empire through bold conquests and strategic diplomacy, doubling its territory and securing its dominance in the Islamic world. This video explores how his military ...

While studying 18th-century maps, Bengtsson noticed a strange rectangle — and brought himself to the site. A surveyor marked the location as "Klosterkullen," or "monastery hill," on a 1760 map.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Skeletal remains found along the Jersey shore have now been linked to a 19th-century shipwreck. The findings are all thanks to the work of the New Jersey State Police and ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

The Welikia Project, made by ecologists at the New York Botanical Garden, uncovers all the flora and fauna that thrived in ...

This brief historical sketch brings us to how the American and Israeli militaries of today have adopted a ...

At some point in the mid-19th century, more than 100 academies — precursors to today’s pubic and private high schools — from Hudson in Columbia County, to Flatbush in Brooklyn, as well as Utica, ...

There's been a break in 30-year-old cold case mystery at the Jersey Shore after experts confirmed skeletal remains found on three beaches belonged to a 19th century boat captain. The bones from a ...