Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

Halloween falls on October 31, 2025, when people wear scary costumes and kids go from door to door, shouting 'trick-or-treat' ...

If Michigan wants today’s kids and teens to grow into responsible citizens, schools must require a thematic approach that ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

The ancient site of Karnak is one of the most impressive places to visit in Egypt. Situated just a short distance from the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Herb Society will delve into the dark side of botanical history when it presents Ancient Poisons at its Oct. 27 meeting at the Biddle House in Tottenville.

Randall Carlson is a geological researcher and renegade scholar with extensive knowledge of ancient mythology, sacred geometry, and the Earth’s history of catastrophes. For over four decades he has ...

The timeline of Lostcan get confusing, so it's worth breaking down era by era. If you've gotten to the point in Lost where the show about a plane crash on an island has suddenly become about time ...

A remarkable ceramic vessel discovered beneath the waters off Alexandria, Egypt, may represent the earliest known reference to Jesus Christ outside of Christian scripture. The so-called "Jesus Cup" ...

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland has had many police chiefs over the years, in part to scandals, and in part, due to the department's cumbersome bureaucracy, including federal oversight and a powerful, ...

Here's a brief history of the company Corteva Agriscience's seed business, which will now be known as SpinCo. Iowa-born Henry A. Wallace, a future U.S. vice president, leads a group that founds the Hi ...