A woman bought fish and chips when she was abroad and was left gobsmacked by the price of the meal. She couldn't believe it.

Since the dawn of time, humanity has needed heroes and epic deeds. For millennia, every civilisation has passed down and ...

In true Swift style, she celebrated her victory while decked out in several pieces of particularly symbolic jewelry.

A vibrant cultural center, the ancient city was a center of commerce ... circa A.D. 1300 sandstone tablet was found on the east side of Monks Mound at Cahokia. Ira Block/National Geographic ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been ...

From the blog of Sabine Sterk at The Times of Israel ...

Derinkuyu is the largest excavated underground city in the world. It lies beneath the parched volcanic terrain of Cappadocia ...

Historian Asad Dandia, a city character in his own right, is showing the history of Muslims in New York while also trying to ...

As you slowly walk through the narrow lanes of Itchan Kala, Khiva’s Old City in Uzbekistan, it feels like entering a fairy land—a fairy land of beautiful mud br ...

Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Assos have discovered a 2,200-year-old Hellenistic mosaic and a 1,800-year-old ...

The sacred water world of the ancient Greeks The Greeks had several water gods that reigned over the oceans, seas, rivers and ...