In this 17th-century map, with top facing south ... archaeologist who attempted to find Atlantis in Yucatán in the late 19th century. “He uses the Atlantis story to try to explain all of ...

We were finally on the map,” he says. It may not have been ... The second book was commissioned by the Russian Empire in the 19th century and documented how Ukrainians were living and eating ...

Klopotenko, 38, is tall and lanky, with a mop of curly hair and fingernails painted in blue and yellow, the colors of the ...

This brief historical sketch brings us to how the American and Israeli militaries of today have adopted a ...

After the war ended, the fort was returned to the U.S., and as the fur trade declined throughout the 19th century, tourism began to pick up on the island and has thrived since. But it wasn’t ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy. pharmaphorum looks at its evolution over the centuries. The roots of the ...

The roots of the conflict lie in the countries’ shared colonial past. From the 17th to the 20th century, Britain ruled most of the Indian subcontinent, first indirectly through the British East ...

Is Kyiv really 1,500 years old? Why is the capital called the "Mother of Rus' cities"? And where was the princes' fortress ...

Mr. Ostapiuk, a septuagenarian, proudly displayed his collection of dozens of original, multicolored labels from vodka ...

The pneumatic tire and the chain drive, followed by the development of gears, revolutionized bicycling in the later 1800s. In the last fifteen years, there has been a revolution of sorts in the ...

The Victorians loved coal. It drove industry and empire, ships and trains. But it also kept them warm. In 19th-century Britain, the thick smell of smoke from coal fires must have been absolutely ...