Queen Teuta of Illyria held an audience with two Roman ambassadors. When one of them disrespected her, she had the envoy ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

For centuries, historians and archaeologists have debated the role of women in medieval warfare. While men were often depicted as warriors, evidence of women buried with weapons has occasionally ...

When 'The Great Plague' struck 17th Century England, one rural community took decisive action that was unusual for the time, but still fascinates centuries later. Video by the BBC's Howard ...

A highly unusual 17th-century painting featuring a Black sitter and a white sitter side by side is on rare public view.

MARTHA ORNSTEIN was born in Vienna in 1878, and received her early education there. She went to the United States in 1895, and, after,a year spent in perfecting her English, she passed the ...

Or if you plan for more garden-plus-castle visits, head to The Gardens of Versailles Palace in France, an elaborately designed castle gardens that bloomed in 17th-century Europe thanks to Louis XIV.

Russia and Ukraine have been locked in an intractable-seeming conflict that has thrown not only the two nations into a state of prolonged chaos but huge swaths of Eastern Europe as well.

Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of ...

Team India posted their joint-highest score in women's ODI - 358/5 against West Indies on Tuesday courtesy a fine century from Harleen Deol. The Indian batters continued their fine form and once ...

Still, it’s not every day you’re celebrated by your peers - the “family” you were the president of for almost a quarter of a century ... at this year’s European Film Awards to ...

World and European women’s cyclo-cross champion Fem Van Empel will see her World Cup overall hopes all but ended this weekend. After missing today’s race in Hulst, the Visma-Lease a Bike rider ...