History

View staggering images of the D-Day invasion, one of World War II's most important battles.

With a little creativity and some help from historical and architectural experts, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have been cleverly restored to their former glory.

Until now, the Qianlong Garden, which includes elaborate rock gardens and more than two dozen pavilions and structures from the most extravagant dynasty in imperial China - has only been seen by...

The man behind early color photographs of Leo Tolstoy and pre-revolutionary Russia, Prokudin-Gorsky was born 155 years ago today.

The ancient concoction shows people were making mummies in Egypt thousands of years earlier than previously thought.

In 1978, Louise Brown became the first human ever born after conception by in vitro fertilization.

Russia's Kaliningrad region has announced the castle is up for sale.

The church is home to the remains of up to 4,000 people.

Ötzi is the oldest naturally preserved ice mummy.

Never-before-seen pearls, diamonds, a pendant and earrings from the court of French King Louis XVI will go to the highest bidder.

The so-called "Spanish flu" of 1918 is thought to have killed between 50 and 100 million people around the world.

"You just wanted to put your arms around him and say, ‘Bobby, it’s gonna be OK.'"

Viewing these images side by side is a moving reminder of the passage of time, as well as the bravery of the Allied forces.

He survived the first showers of ash and rock, but was toppled as he tried to flee the city.

Saqqara is a vast ancient burial ground that once served as the necropolis for the Ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis.

Fights over Britain’s Brexit negotiations have taken a nasty turn.

The rapper tweeted, "Republicans were the ones [who] helped black people." It's a little more complicated than that.

Millions of Polish Jews died during the Holocaust. Who is to blame?

The papyrus contains incantations written in Coptic—an Egyptian language that uses characters based on the Greek alphabet.

“I enjoyed showing Mrs. Abe a timeless part of Florida’s history,” Melania Trump said.

Unexploded bombs from World War II are a persistent hazard in Germany, even more than 70 years since the end of the war.

The worst of the air pirates was a man who became more dangerous after he was caught and imprisoned.

Archaeologists uncovered the remains in burial ground containing at least 47 tombs.

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”

The Cordelière went down in history as it sailed into enemy fire, sinking England’s most powerful ship, while the rest of the French fleet fled.

The burial site contains the mummy of a high priest of Thoth—the ancient Egyptian god of science, magic and writing— whose preserved organs are contained in jars.

The letter, which could be worth thousands, has been locked away in a safety deposit box for half a century.

To the disbelief of spectators, all of the animals which entered into the gates perished, while miraculously, the priests emerged unscathed.

The creepy story behind the Lunar New Year.

The Black Sea is fascinating to archaeologists because its zero-oxygen “dead zone” preserves shipwrecks and artifacts for thousands of years.