The Netherlands, a country renowned for its stunning canals, windmills, and flat landscapes, didn’t always look like it does today. The creation of the Netherlands is a tale of human ingenuity, ...

Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma” lays out thousands of rules and stratagems for elites trying to stay in the good graces of a powerful and capricious ruler.

Long before Houston's skyscrapers and suburbs, tribes like the Karankawa and Atakapa lived here, shaped the land and were violently displaced over centuries.

A striking A-listed castle in Aberdeenshire with more than 800 years of history is to undergo a major £5million restoration ...

Antonio Solario's painting was snatched from the Civic Museum of Belluno in 1973. Now, after a drawn out legal battle and a convincing case argued by the art world's 'Sherlock Holmes', its British own ...

On a scorching hot day, the 16th century built Burghley House in Lincolnshire provided the perfect venue to unwind.

Historical accounts reveal that Pathapatnam served as a capital of the Ganga-Gajapati kings of Paralakhemundi towards the end ...

How long would it take to walk the Rings of Saturn?” I asked ChatGPT. “About 17.2 years,” came the reply. “You’d have to leap ...

(This is based on the introduction to the forthcoming volume Sri Lanka’s Defence Policy since Independence and the Shifting ...

A widely cited 2019 study by scholars Milan Vaishnav and Jamie Hintson predicted that if delimitation happens after 2026, as ...

Hidden away from tourist trails, Ireland’s lesser-known castles, abbeys and hillforts offer atmospheric ruins and ancient ...

In February 1847, 19-year-old Susan Magoffin survived a trek through the Jornada del Muerto (the dead man’s journey), despite ...