In 944, Sayf al-Dawla established himself as the head of the independent Hamdanid Emirate of Aleppo. Sayf’s rule over his ...

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon may have kept King Nebuchadnezzar’s wife happy, but they couldn’t hold a candle to my grandmother’s home-made “swinging baskets.” ...

A collection of indelible photographs, maps and ‘intimate guides” from 1807 to 1940 went beyond extolling the virtues of the ...

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

US comics publisher Dark Horse Comics introduced the supernatural vigilante Ghost in 1993. Now, collected in two volumes, ...

The Glasgow Looking Glass (later The Northern Looking Glass) was published in 1825 and is considered by many the first ‘comic’, using used speech bubbles and is believed to be the first publication to ...