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

The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known ...

The map itself is undated, but there are clues it was created in 1491: It quotes a book published that year, and Christopher Columbus may have consulted the map (or a copy) before his great voyage.

In fact, he pointed out in a recent interview, it’s “only been a correct map of the country for three years of its history.” It’s not just because the map is missing Alaska and the ...

The end of the bloody, US-backed civil wars across Central America led to a brutal neoliberal economic restructuring near the ...