Born on Sept. 26, 1840, in Germany, Thomas Nast arrived in the United States at the age of six. He studied at the National Academy of Design as a young man and, in 1862, began a fateful career with ...

Countless people around the world have been captivated by ancient Egypt since Roman times, but especially after King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in 1922, Egyptomania spread across Europe and the ...

Sisyphus appears in several Greek myths, though today he is often associated with just one. In the famous legend, he is punished by Zeus for cheating death and condemned to endlessly push a boulder up ...

In 32 B.C.E., the Roman Republic was on the brink of war. Octavian, Julius Caesar’s great-nephew and adopted son, had already risen to great power in the Roman Republic alongside Mark Antony and ...

According to legend, Rome was first established in 753 B.C.E. by the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, who were the sons of Mars, the god of war.As the city grew in size and power, Rome eventually ...

The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth bearing the faint image of a man who appears to have suffered physical trauma consistent with crucifixion, and it’s traditionally associated with Jesus ...

Restoration workers at St. Andreas Church in Eisleben, Germany have uncovered a surprising find 400 years in the making. Inside the leg of a statue, they found four bags stuffed with coins dating back ...

With the Titans vanquished, the rule of the 12 Olympians began. Zeus and his brothers, Poseidon and Hades, divided control of the universe among them. Hades took control of the underworld, Poseidon ...

Petra, often referred to as the “Rose City” due to the color of its sandstone cliffs, was the crown jewel of the Nabataean Kingdom.It was a bustling metropolis filled with grand temples, tombs, and ...

The story of the 79 C.E. Mount Vesuvius eruption actually began about 300,000 years ago, when the volcano first began to form. In the millennia leading up to the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum ...

Before becoming infamous as the leader of the Manson Family cult, Charles Manson had a troubled early life marked by abuse and frequent run-ins with the law, starting with petty crimes and escalating ...

The story has a romantic element, but making Tyrian dye was anything but. To produce the dye, ancient people collected thousands of murex sea snails along the beach (species like Hexaplex trunculus, ...