By Corey J. A. Bradshaw et al./The Conversation Imagine growing up beside the eastern Mediterranean Sea 14,000 years ago. You’re…
In June 1947 Kenneth Arnold was flying a small plane over Mount Rainier in Washington when nine bright objects began…
A rather unusual petition from October 1716 is tucked away in the pope’s diocesan archives in the basilica of San…
During the Second World War the Allies waged a bombing campaign over occupied France that cost the lives of more…
For millennia everybody knew that human beings enjoy a privileged, unique position at the centre of the universe. That self-confidence…
The centurion played a crucial role in the success of the Roman army, serving as the backbone of both military…
Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine emperor, was born on February 8, 1405, into a dynasty struggling to maintain control…
Some 2,000 war and merchant ships were sunk in the waters of Southeast Asia during the Second World War, constituting…
The Franco-Ottoman alliance, formed in the 1530s between the king of France, François I, and the Turkish ruler of the…
On the evening of 1 August 1952 General Dwight D.Eisenhower, the newly nominated Republican presidential nominee, met with his advisers…