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The launch comes as Senegal is requesting the repatriation of looted artworks from France
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Remembering the fire at a National Archives film vault that destroyed years worth of flammable nitrate film newsreels
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The marble stele, held in the British Museum's collections for 150 years, also includes the first known use of the term “no man’s land”
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Selections include swastika-adorned baubles from Nazi Germany, miniature bombs and warships popularized during World War I
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The owner of the unusual footwear likely made his living on the water
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New DNA evidence drastically changes the image of the young woman buried in Caithness 4,250 years ago
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Over 3,000 stone tools show human presence in Tibetan plateau 20,000 years before previously thought
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A University of Michigan scholar unearthed the musical manuscript penned by three Polish prisoners in the archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
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The macabre tool features tales of revenge, thwarted love, infanticide—and a urinal that drove a man to murder
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Since the Great Recession, the number of history majors at colleges and universities has dropped by more than 30 percent
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Researchers used advanced protein analysis to identify traces of carp roe eggs left on a 6,000-year-old clay plot
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Hester Pulter’s works detail chaotic political landscape of the English Civil War, scientific discoveries, theological queries, personal struggles
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You can take an aerial tour of the city circa 320 A.D. or stop by specific sites for in-depth exploration
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In a first, Egyptian authorities opened the woman’s sarcophagus in front of the international press
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The project’s launch coincides with a blockbuster Vienna retrospective celebrating the 450th anniversary of the Flemish old master's death
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The outdoor gallery on a former section of Berlin Wall has been threatened by a building boom in recent years
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Wethersfield and Windsor both date back to the early 17th century, but which came first is a matter of debate
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The four-ton sculpture was taken from an island temple and gifted to Queen Victoria in 1869
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The report was commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron, who has advocated for repatriation
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Civil War Photo Sleuth aims to be the world’s largest, most complete digital archive of identified and unidentified Civil War-era portraits
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