The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.

Ruled by Hammurabi, restored by Nebuchadrezzar, conquered by Cyrus—this city in the heart of Mesopotamia was both desired and despised, placing it at the center stage of the dawn of history.

The KGB’s successor, the Federal Security Service, or FSB, continued to probe our secrets and attempted to recruit agents just as aggressively as the KGB at the height of the Cold War. Moscow marked ...

As part of its ongoing inquiry into abuse and financial corruption within a Peruvian lay group, the Vatican expelled four ...

AS everyone has already noticed, but hardly anyone has dared to say, there is a very obvious issue with Rivals’ show-jumping ...

From 1580 to 1700, low-ranking Spanish imperial officials ceaselessly moved across the Spanish empire, and in the process forged a single coherent political unit out of multiple heterogeneous ...

At the height of the French Revolutionary War, a new alliance between France and Spain threatened to overturn British naval ...

Maine schoolchildren know about the boy lost for more than a week on the state’s tallest mountain. Now the rest of the U.S.

This is Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. This masterpiece in Dubai is twice the height of the U.S.'s Empire State Building. And it's almost three times the size of the Eiffel Tower. So ...

Christina Milian said she and husband Matt Pokora ultimately relocated their family from Hollywood to Paris after "commuting ...

In Warhammer 40,000's supposedly satirical, definitively grimdark Imperium Of Man, the Space Marines are the genetically engineered sons and warrior-monks of the Emperor, a messianic figure reduced to ...

The Canal St Martin and neighbouring Marais are great areas to stay. La Dame Tartine, overlooking the Stravinsky Fountain and ...