Centuries-old secret passageways detailed in Leonardo da Vinci's sketches were just found under Milan's Sforza Castle.

Famously mentioned in Hesiod’s Theogony in the 8th century B.C.E., Nyx is one of the oldest deities in Greek mythology. The primordial goddess of the night, Nyx gave birth to numerous offspring, who ...

Born into the harsh realities of segregation and poverty in the Jim Crow South, Martin Luther King Sr. rose to become a powerful voice for justice, a devoted pastor, and the guiding force behind one ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it buried the rich and poor of Pompeii alike in an avalanche of ash. But the eruption also preserved how some of the city’s wealthier citizens lived, as ...

On a spring night in 1968, the world changed forever. Televisions buzzed and radios crackled as the news spread across the country: Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader who’d given the ...

Benito Mussolini’s death on April 28, 1945, marked the end of a dark chapter in Italian history. After seizing power in 1922, the dictator ruled his country with an iron fist. Although he was deposed ...