It’s hard to say if Daisy Hernández has the best timing in the world or the worst. She thought about the question one morning, in her office at Northwestern University, where she is. It was a few ...

Archaeologists in Germany have discovered four Roman marching camps and around 1,500 artifacts, including coins and shoe ...

The history of the Jews in Malta is one of the lesser-known stories across Maltese history - but while never anywhere near being in majority in these islands, the story of the Jews and Malta is one ...

President Trump announced that U.S. forces had captured Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, following a “large-scale attack.” By Melissa Kirsch and The Morning Team Reports of explosions in Caracas ...

Andrew Blackall discusses the history of Boudica and where her final resting place might be many centuries after her death in ...

"There’s a profound contradiction at the heart of contemporary American Christianity: the disconnect between claimed ...

Roman gladiators were not physically fit but rather were “quite fat”, a historian has said. Gladiators have gained a ...

Twenty-seven cavalrymen charged Japanese infantry at Morong, Philippines, on January 16, 1942. They scattered hundreds of ...

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according ...

If you are like me, you often find yourself looking back to the past, dreaming of a time when things were simpler and easier. I find myself thinking of the ...

Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who ...