History presents the Whydah Gally's crew as swashbuckling sailors who looted a fortune before perishing in a storm. But ...

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out ...

Sixty-five years ago, the monumental Abu Simbel was destined to disappear beneath the floodwaters of a new Nile dam. Then the ...

The xenotransplantation comes on the heels of recent transplants of pig hearts and kidneys into medical patients.

Curators and conservators are finding innovative solutions to protect our history from disaster. Will some be destroyed ...

A century ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological ...

Anguilla has established itself as one of the world’s best diving destinations for beginners, with abundant marine life and crystalline waters — you just have to take the plunge.

Where others might have pulled their small child away from the tumbling whitewater, her mother instead recognized her ...

Its origin is a mystery, but the Peggy Martin rose weathered weeks underwater after one of America’s most devastating storms.

Long before U.S. military bases lined its shores, the islands known today as Okinawa were once the independent Ryukyu Kingdom ...

Few figures of France’s Ancien Régime are as enigmatic and divisive as the Marquise de Maintenon. She has been portrayed as ...