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.

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

From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost ...