Our great grandfather hadn’t crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 112 years — but he was about to.  Maybe not all of him, but a ...

In 1221 on the plains of current-day Turkmenistan lay the city of Merv. The town faced a Mongol besiegement under one of ...

At the turn of the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire was at the zenith of its power. However, its success did not go unnoticed ...

The event included a scientific workshop and a round table dedicated to the study of new archival documents and artifacts reflecting the foreign policy relations of the Kazakh Khanate of the XV-XVII ...

On the streets of Istanbul, porters hauling massive sacks wrapped in white plastic — on their backs or in handcarts — are a ...

A documentary by Al Jazeera, in partnership with the Hind Rajab Foundation, has revealed new evidence in the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab, her family, and the rescue team that tried to reach ...

The story of Gaza, from the 1940s to the 2010s, told through the personal experiences of a wide variety of ordinary people - a teacher, a smuggler, a bird-watcher, musicians. Show more The back-story ...

Boardwalk Empire was never a show that shied away from pain. Set during the Prohibition era, this HBO drama gave us a world filled with power struggles, political games, and brutal consequences. It ...

The Burke-Gilman Trail is about 20 miles, but the road to becoming a Seattle transportation icon is vastly longer. “From Rails to Trails,” a new PBS documentary narrated by Edward Norton premiering ...

“Lexington: 250 Years,” a KET documentary about the history of Kentucky’s second-largest city, will premiere live at the Kentucky Theatre Monday, Oct. 13, before airing statewide on KET the following ...

Opal Lee, who's known as the grandmother of Juneteenth, is photographed for a celebration to commemorate the opening of her new house at Historic Southside in Fort Worth on Friday, June 14, 2024. Lee ...

Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north of the Alps. Computer technology helped unravel the mystery of the text ...