The Holy Roman Empire was vast, powerful in name but fractured in reality. This video explores how conflicting loyalties, decentralized rule, and endless internal rivalries made it one of the most ...

Nature Into Art” at the Toledo Museum of Art is the first major monographic exhibition ever devoted to Ruysch.

The royal family was out in force today to greet France's President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron at the ...

Some 3,500 Mennonites gathered in Zurich at the end of May to celebrate the 500th anniversary of this Protestant religious movement, which originated on the banks of the River Limmat before spreading ...

In 1204, during the Fourth Crusade, Crusaders diverted from their mission to the Holy Land and instead sacked Constantinople, the heart of the Byzantine Empire. Driven by a mix of financial debts, ...

Vandals who cut down England’s beloved Sycamore Gap tree were sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison for ...

Xuanzang's journey in India is reviving the country's forgotten Buddhist heritage. Deepak Anand, a researcher and heritage ...

1986: Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000m in world record 30:13.74. 1991: Labour MP Terry Fields is sentenced to 60 ...

This is part of a running series of essays by Iskander Rehman, entitled “Applied History,” which seeks, through the study of ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of man’s arrival on the moon Sunday with a visit to the Vatican astronomical ...

There was one amazing year, though, 1793, when the pregnant look did “go,” and anyone could wear it. You could buy a false ...

The largest collection of Roman coins found in Spain is now on exhibit. The museum display features 50,000 ancient coins from the third and fourth centuries A.D.