Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

Mummification was a sacred funeral rite for the ancient Egyptians, who believed that the body of the deceased needed to be ...

In Shushi, the Holy Savior Cathedral (Ghazanchetsots) and the Green Church have been damaged. The Saint Sargis Church in Mokhrenis village, Hadrut, has been completely destroyed, and the Saint ...

A fatwa or death sentence was issued against author Salman Rushdie by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on ...

US President Donald Trump has swapped Russian prisoner Alexander Vinnik, which secured the release of American teacher Marc ...

Sewall’s partner brought a pair of pistols and laid them on the counter, but there are different versions of what happened in historic sources. In one version of the story, Sewell picked up ...

In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...

Kate Middleton looked amazing in Wimslow, wearing the same Blaze Milano coat she wore earlier this year - but the wife of ...

Hans Christian Andersen wrote many of the children’s stories that we hear at an early age. We’ve probably all heard of “The Princess and the Pea,” “The Ugly Duckling,” and ...

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To novices, cruising isn’t synonymous with meaningful experiences that expose travellers to authentic flavours of the world, ...

Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...