Henry VIII, Genghis Khan, Marie Antoinette, Alexander the Great. There are plenty of names that have gone down in history, for great and terrible reasons. However, what about the people whose names ...

The events of Operation Overlord inspired the Swedish power metal battalion’s 2005 fan-favourite single, Primo Victoria ...

Nabil Shaban, who has died aged 72, became an outstanding actor in the teeth of severe disability; most widely remembered as the villainous Sil in Doctor Who, he was also a combative documentary maker ...

Khan concludes the true story of what happened during Khan's exile on Ceti Alpha V, which fundamentally changes what we know ...

At the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, a surprising array of living animals make their homes among the famous dead.

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

One of the Mamluk-era tunnels carved into tufa rock at Nahal 'Amal, revealing the sophisticated hydraulic engineering that powered medieval sugar production. (Azriel Yechezkel / A. Frumkin et al., ...