Hidden in Eastern Germany stands a half timbered house abandoned before the Berlin Wall fell where every room holds echoes of ...

On this day in 1961, soldiers in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) began construction on the Berlin Wall – ...

The complete remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the biggest dinosaurs, were found in South Dakota on August 12, 1990. In ...

In 2019, the Bundestag voted to create a memorial for the victims of communism. Progress on the project has stalled, but ...

Sydney’s streets are now a treadmill for the gods. Eliud Kipchoge’s here. Sifan Hassan’s here. So you should probably be ...

Trump and Putin’s Alaska meeting will be the latest in a long line of history-making encounters that marked turning points ...

History and culture or energetic contemporary life? Skyscrapers or old towns? It doesn’t have to be a dilemma; these ...

Gold is one of the world’s most closely watched—and emotionally charged—commodities. It reflects economic conditions but it also magnifies them. Movements in the price of gold can create ...

The IAEA has repeatedly warned of the dangers of fighting around nuclear plants in Ukraine and Russia. Meanwhile, Ukraine is ...

Precious works of art. The fabled Amber Room of Russia’s Catherine Palace. Crates of gold. The hunt for lost Nazi treasure is back on in earnest.

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - Barbed Wire Sunday (German: Stacheldrahtsonntag), is the name given to 13 August 1961, when the ...

Inspired by the Acropolis entrance in Athens, the Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate) is one of the most-photographed sites ...