William Shakespeare wrote ‘King Lear,’ ‘Macbeth,’ and ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ as London reeled from the foiled 1605 Gunpowder ...

The hat lay flattened and moth-eaten for more than a century in a museum box. Now, the rare 2,000-year-old headpiece (made ...

Behind the booming voice and tabloid scandals, the most enduring performances by Burton – born 100 years ago – were studies in vulnerability.

For over 2,300 years, researchers and historians are trying to locate the Alexander the Great Tomb, one of the world's ...

Cleopatra: Hail Caesar! - What's a girl to do when your brother-husband is trying to murder you? Well, cozy up to one of the world's largest military powers of course. But while Cleopatra knew that ...

Another common misconception about ancient Egypt thanks to Hollywood is that all Egyptians were mummified and placed in ...

One thing you’ll always be able to say about Walking Shadow Shakespeare: They positively reverberate the joy of the Bard. In their current show, a wildly economical mash-up of Julius Caesar and Antony ...

Walking past the central fountain in Highland Park and through the emerald-colored grass on Sunday afternoon, visitors encountered a tent in the shadows of a large tree. Surrounding the tent were ...

Most of us like to think that we have an accurate timeline of major historical events and influential figures in our heads. It doesn’t take a historian to figure out that Socrates was probably not ...

“Civilisations: Rise and Fall is the next iteration, building on this important legacy, and bringing a fresh eye to this ...

EXCLUSIVE: Lucy Lawless’ big return as Lucretia to the “Spartacus” Universe in House of Ashur has been revealed in a video ...