This fall, guests on A&K's Ancient Kingdoms & Dynasties will get a complimentary nine-day cruise with Crystal Cruises, including stops in Spain, Morocco, and Portugal.

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

What a bet about the price of five metals over time can teach us about resource consumption and human innovation.

A collection of essays by the late David McCullough, including some never published before, will be released this fall.

Surgery was rare and risky in the medieval period. Though medical options were limited, trans people were able to take ...

Travelers spent an estimated $200 billion staying in non-traditional tourist housing last year, and Precedence Research estimates desire for alternate accommodations will send that figure skyrocketing ...

The centuries-old tradition of wassailing is making a comeback in rural England, with rituals and revelry meant to chase away ...

Two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as “The Great Geometer,” have survived in an Arabic ...

Valentines Day is all about the hearts: heart-shaped chocolates, cards, balloons and even pizza. But the heart hasnt always just been a symbol of romance. Across cultures and centuries, the heart has ...

In 1967, a team including Jean-Paul Sartre put the US ‘on trial’ for its actions in Vietnam. Clive Webb’s Vietdamned surveys their efforts ...

We sit down for a coffee with veteran Sudanese-British broadcaster Zeinab Badawi, who discusses the value of history and the ...

In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...