As the closing theme music builds, the ring announcer calls the fight “the greatest exhibition of guts and stamina in the history ... of the Olympic Games, held every four years, or each Olympiad, ...

From the heart of Mesopotamia to the heights of the Roman Empire, ancient civilizations have left an indelible mark on the ...

The Giza Plateau is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It attracts millions of fans yearly. The Valley of the Kings holds royal ...

Japan created history by becoming the first Asian nation to compete ... with United States being the sole exception. The inaugural Olympic Games took place in ancient Greece in 776 BC. Who started the ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other ...

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

Here's a list of 70+ trivia questions and answers to whip out for your next trivia night with your friends or just for your own personal enjoyment. After all, having an arsenal of facts about ...

Chinese construction is expanding on land that Bhutan’s official maps show as part of the Himalayan kingdom, as Beijing ramps ...

Spanish forces and their Indigenous allies captured Tenochtitlán in 1521, bringing the Aztec Empire’s reign to a close after less than a century. The White House, whose cornerstone was laid in 1792, ...

The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world's first encyclopedias and lexicons.

Leading one of the bloodiest battles against the British, he mobilised a local rebellion, using guerilla warfare and ambushes ...