In 1882, the British Museum acquired a clay tablet that had been discovered in southern Iraq, not far from the ancient city ...

Researchers think they have found a depiction of Noah’s Ark on the 3,000-year-old Babylonian Map of the World. Also known as ...

What to do? He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into the new king’s good graces. D’Annebault hired Pierre Desceliers, one of the best ...

Venus is the world next door. An Earth-sized planet that couldn’t be less like Earth, it is a hellish world with acid clouds.

It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe ... For more information about the history of World War I, visit The National WWI Museum and Memorial. More from Military & Defense ...

Legend has it that a headless sculpture of the god Yaxachtun at the site formerly terrified the local Lacandon people, who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its ...

In that race, the popular vote split between Bush and Gore by a very small margin — much narrower than in 2016. "Over time, ...

There are parts of the excavation site that date back to the Sasanian Empire of the 3 rd through 7 th centuries, but a ...

This interactive map explores the complex and surprising evolution of Auschwitz, the scene of one of the worst crimes in human history. This was where more than a million men, women and children, most ...

The Battle of the Somme was one of the most significant campaigns of World War One ... This interactive map shows the victories, defeats and painful stalemate, and how the lessons learned paved ...

Besides Smith, Williams and Johnson are the most common surnames in the U.S., with at least one of these featuring in the top ...

World leaders decided to complement the UN Charter with a road map to guarantee the rights of every individual everywhere. The document they considered, and which would later become the Universal ...