Justin Jacobs, author and expert in modern Chinese history, discusses loot, antiquity, and imperialism in his new book.

Rare remains of Roman wall paintings and the world’s first railway station are among the sites added to a list of heritage at ...

As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...

World’s first rail station named on heritage at risk list - 155 sites have been added to the list over concerns about neglect ...

Experts attending the first World Conference of Classics visit Jinsha Site Museum ... At the museums, he finds that the use ...

Many events of great significance to U.S. (and indeed world) history and politics took place not within the country itself ...

A volcanic eruption destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD, but an avalanche of tourists has caused officials to ...

The work, now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, tells the story of two characters on the island—the last people ...

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — present-day Iraq — in the A.D. 630s between Arab Muslims and the army ...

U.S. and Polish officials have opened a new NATO missile defense base in northen Poland. Polish officials welcomed it as a ...

Across the U.S., 25 national battlefield and military parks have been established to protect battlefield landscapes and memorialize the past. Increasingly, visitors to these sites are attracted as ...

The building, within the Dinorwig Quarry UNESCO World Heritage site in Wales, was set ablaze in what police have described as an 'abhorrent and mindless' act ...