Numidia was once a vast kingdom, stretching from the east of modern-day Morocco into Algeria, Tunisia and the west of Libya.

The discovery of a newly identified species — the oldest saber-toothed animal found and an ancient cousin to mammals — fills ...

MAPS, BACK IN 2012. I TAKE AN OLD MAP AND I TURN IT INTO A FABRIC, AND I SEW IT INTO A BAGS. FROM BAGS TO TOTES AND ZIPPER POUCHES. LINDA BRINGS A BIT OF OLD SCHOOL TO A NEW GENERATION OF SHOPPERS.

As a young girl, Mathilde was quiet and gentle, but she was not especially good-looking. Her father, George of Saxony, had planned a marriage between Mathilde and Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of ...

In 1882, the British Museum acquired the oldest known map of the world, which was carved into a clay tablet from Babylon and ...

In the ninth and tenth centuries, castles were often built of wood and easily burned down by enemies. As unrest spread across Europe and warfare began to change, castle designs had to adapt.

Carmen Schuster left the Transylvanian village of Cincsor for West Germany in search of a better life 40 years ago. But when ...

Medieval roasting hearth and oven base, Oxford, England. OXFORD, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, archaeologists have ...

The publication of the Nomination file, including the maps and names, does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever of the World Heritage Committee or of the Secretariat of UNESCO concerning ...

These early coins, made of precious metals like silver and gold, were first minted in the ancient kingdom of Lydia (now part of Turkey) and quickly spread across Greek city-states. The silver coin was ...

Coin of ancient Greek Queen of India ... This was in part due to outside influences which had infiltrated the Macedonian kingdom. Another reason for this was that Macedonian soldiers were, in fact, ...

The strength of the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation is expressed as a Solar UV Index or Sun Index.The UV Index does not exceed 8 in the UK (8 is rare; 7 may occur on exceptional days, mostly in the ...