History

The most famous monument in Indonesia shaped these ninth century–inspired feasts.

Before vaccines, pseudoscientific folks remedies for the deadly virus involved mysterious animal-vegetable-mineral hybrids.

The daughter, sister, and aunt of emperors, Gulbadan Begum wrote of a Mughal Empire few witnessed.

First found at the ancient fortress of Tell el-Retaba, child burials in ceramic jars perplexed early archaeologists.

Considered an artist of the gallows, his true identity is shrouded in myth and hyperbole. 

Ptolemy's compendium, later known as the Almagest, dominated Western astronomy for 15 centuries. It was also wrong, and it took the fall of an empire to fix it.

Families across the U.S. are finding each other through a forgotten, historically Black graveyard.

A new museum delves into our cute and terrifying relationship with gators.

An institution dedicated to honoring Black American military history got its start in one man's garage.