The ancient Greek engineer Mandrocles of Samos is credited with creating the Pontoon Bridge, which spanned the Bosphorus Strait.

Imagine stumbling upon a piece of genuine history while doing something totally mundane, like cleaning out your garage or ...

Standing at the bottom of a dusty wadi, I crane my neck to take in the huge structure rising above me: row upon row of precisely cut stone, set seamlessly without mortar some 2,500 years ago, soaring ...

History doesn’t have to be a dusty museum or a long list of dates, it can be a thrilling adventure that families actually ...

Beneath the Church of Our Lady of Remedies in Mexico lies the world’s largest pyramid by volume, the Great Pyramid of Cholula. Built over centuries and layered with temples, it predates the Aztecs and ...

Every part of the A-12 was an experiment in extremes, fuel tanks that leaked on the runway, seals that melted, and inlets that adjusted themselves at Mach 3. Through relentless testing, Lockheed and ...

Vanderbilt has always been proud of its commitment to success on and off the field, but the joy and craziness of College GameDay was an especially wonderful, unifying moment for our university ...

Whether it’s a spooky disappearance or a hidden identity, an event with hundreds of different explanations or none at all, there is an endless fascination with historical mysteries that remain ...

Prologue The Roosevelt poster on freedom is timeless. I thought about its message while on the Parthenon. In early October ...

It was here, surely with the help of this lovely library collection, that Hale invented the spectrohelioscope, which you can ...

A self-proclaimed socialist is on track to become New York City's next mayor.