Meet the people paid to rouse the workers of industrial Britain.

A sober look at a wild conspiracy theory that argues the Middle Ages never happened.

The Parthenon embodies the ideals of perfection Classical Greeks sought from architecture. The neighboring Erechtheion offers something else.

Today, the F-word is enjoying a renaissance the likes of which it hasn’t seen since, well, the Renaissance.

The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.

Almost all royal lines try to legitimize their rule with legendary origin stories. Here are five of the strangest examples.

They had the technology. So why didn’t they use it?

When Mongol traders came knocking, Sultan Muhammad II shaved off their beards. Three years later, his whole empire was annihilated.