On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

There's no conclusive evidence, but a river reputed by some to be the oldest in the world dates back 340 million years.

Remains of a civic basilica give archaeologists clues to what the original layout of Roman London looked like.

Mantzur immigrated to Israel as a child with his family after surviving the Farhud massacre in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1941.

The title of the oldest verified person is held by Jeanne Calment from France, who lived an extraordinary 122 years and 164 days from 1875 to 1997. As per Guinness World Records, she was born and ...

The record for the oldest verified person belongs to Jeanne ... According to the Guinness World Records, she was born in Arles and spent her final days in a nursing home in the same city, which ...

The lawsuit contends that the new immigration policy is spreading fear of raids, thus lowering attendance at worship services ...

Here, Ott sniffs a pinch of snuff and lets out the sneeze seen ‘round the world. It’s the earliest surviving copyrighted motion picture. When Spanish dancer Carmencita brought her saucy act to ...

With this, religious studies have become a field of interest, with one of them being Hindu Studies. Often called the “world’s oldest religion,” Hinduism dates back over 4,000 years — possibly even ...

“This is probably one of the oldest historical materials that bear ... Bohner’s elder brother was captured by Japanese during World War I and placed in the Bando prisoner-of-war camp in ...