Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, they created a culture that influenced both civilizations.

How patrons of the arts became plutocrats aboard yachts. I n the early 1500s, an unknown wealthy patron is said to have ...

TIMES is the title of the international team's project, which is an acronym for "Time Integrated Matrix for Earth Sciences." The idea behind it is to launch a global program with the aim of ...

On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

Mansa Musa was the 14th-century king of the Mali Empire, and he was one of the richest individuals in the world. He ruled ...

A large helium deposit has been discovered along the Midcontinental Rift in Minnesota and the resource has significant global ...

Historians, political scientists and former policy practitioners reflect on the use of history in the analysis of the ...

After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...

FOX Television Network has set a second season for the entertainment format The 1% Club, which originally premiered on Prime Video last season in the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. iteration of the ...