The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world's first encyclopedias and lexicons.

Researchers uncovered a tiny house called the "House of Phaedra" during excavation work in the ancient city of Pompeii, Italy ...

In every state, urban legends have been scaring residents for years.

The workers began digging near a hospital in Birkirkara in September to install new water lines. As they dug, the team ...

Ancient masters of engineering ... This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Water was transported not only for drinking but also for public ...

As History.com explained, Samhain, a "pagan religious festival originating from an ancient Celtic spiritual tradition ...

The explorer Jacques Soustelle called Bonampak "a pictorial encyclopedia of a Mayan city ... beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo de las Pinturas ...

Before we jump into how wrong many of history's great thinkers were ... In about 500 BC, ancient Greek philosophers like Hippocrates and Pythagoras believed fathers held the answers to heredity.

But it turns out this week’s showstoppers, mouth-watering cornucopia, have a history that ... the encyclopedia adds. The motif stuck around, becoming part of Ancient Roman myths and even ...

Disinformation, generalizations, and outright lies are allowed to go unchecked on the free encyclopedia's Arabic version.

Lujiazui was named after Lu Shen (1477-1544), a Ming Dynasty scholar and collector, who spent much of his life there. The ...

was an ancient empire that ruled portions of North Africa, Italy and Spain from Carthage, a city located in modern-day Tunisia, according to the World History Encyclopedia. The empire was “the ...