In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down the city of Athens, as well as the Acropolis, in what is called “the Persian Destruction of Athens.” The destruction of the great city took ...

From 6000 BC, the Chinese harvested salt crystals from Lake Yungchen which partially dried in the summer sun. Many other ...

Wars have shaped history for centuries, with some lasting generations, redefining borders, cultures, and power struggles that ...

French officials say a French citizen imprisoned in Iran for over 880 days has been freed. French President Emmanuel Macron wrote online Thursday that French citizen Olivier Grondeau had been ...

Edy Tan cleans up after Singapore. Every day, his army of 2,700 workers fans out across the island to scrub hundreds of buildings, maintain 1,700km of roads including all 10 expressways, and sweep ...

Empire Co.'s top finance executive, Matt Reindel, is retiring from the grocer. Empire on Thursday said Reindel, who joined the Stellarton, Nova Scotia, company in 2019 and has been chief financial ...

Source: hernan4429/iStock The instrument has been variously dated to between 150 and 100 BC or 205 BC and is thought to have been created by Greek scientists, though no one is entirely sure.

Today, one of Liverpool's most popular and well-loved institutions - The Empire Theatre - is celebrating its 100th birthday. Now a century in, The Empire Theatre on Lime Street in Liverpool city ...

Ruins of ancient stone huts on Delos date back to the 3rd millennium BC, and from 900 BC to 100 AD the island served as a religious center. Eventually, it became a site of religious pilgrimage for ...

The NASDAQ 100 has been very quiet during the early hours in electronic trading as we are just trying to sort out what’s going to happen next. Quite frankly, this is a market that I think is ...

A US-based researcher has identified some 100 monuments at the Lahore Fort from the era of the Sikh empire (1799-1849) detailing its historical significance. Of the monuments, 30 do not exist today.

A US-based researcher has identified some 100 monuments at the Lahore Fort from the era of the Sikh Empire (1799-1849) detailing its historical significance. Of them around 30 monuments do not ...