World History

For the cowboys, ranchers, saloon girls, pioneers, and school marms living in the Old West, down time looked a...

Theories about the beginning of life are controversial. The origins of life is a vast field of study, and...

The Great Wall of China is a marvel of human engineering and a beloved icon of China. The stone...

News reports of war time skirmishes in the Ukraine, terrorist and guerrillas, and rioters and looters often mention Molotov...

Nine-year-old Jeremiah Longbrake was visiting his grandmother’s house near the small town of Tenmile, Oregon, located about sixty miles...

Recent excavations at a site in the Bagcilar district of Istanbul have unearthed an underground chapel that, according to...

The heart of Norway’s ski country is an unlikely place to find a rare, 1,000-year-old coin bearing the faces...

A recent archaeological discovery at an excavation site in Eisleben, Germany, yielded a peculiar and baffling find – the...

Upon its release in 1962, the movie adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird was both a critical and commercial...

When Eilidh Stimpson hired a plumber to do some work on her home in Edinburgh, Scotland, she never anticipated...