Like Atlanta’s unlikely journey to host the 1996 Centennial Olympics, for The Games in Black and White filmmakers George ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a lost city in North Macedonia, believed to be the capital of the Kingdom of ...

Celebrate documentaries and dramas at Filmfest D.C., explore hundreds of bands during Petworth PorchFest, and sample gourmet ...

Perhaps nowhere on the globe are these two waves of migration converging more starkly than in Mexico City, a vast urban ...

The pope's death at the age of 88 ends a 12-year papacy that began with the historic resignation of Francis' predecessor in ...

As Roman Catholics around the world mourn the death of Pope Francis, who was hospitalized with a complex lung infection and ...

The pope's death at age 88 ends a 12-year papacy that began with the historic resignation of Francis' predecessor in 2013.

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

Ancient Elba, a once-thriving metropolis in Syria, was discovered by chance in the 1960s by Italian archaeologist Paola Matthiae, revealing its historical significance as a major trade route stop.

NBC News Winds of 9 to 12 mph were coming from the south and southeast, with occasional gusts up to 21 mph, around the time of ... The helicopter lost control shortly after it turned at the ...