The world of ancient history is filled with captivating stories that have captured our imagination for generations. From lost ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet to memorialize his only son, Hamnet, who died of plague at age 11. This belief, which has reached near-mythic status, drew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before "Twilight" put Jacob on the map, werewolves have been the subject of countless movies, books and monster tales. Dating ...

Thebes was one of about 1,000 poleis (city-states) spread all over the mainland of classical Greece, the islands of the Aegean and Ionian seas, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, north Africa, southern ...

The Big Ideas: What Is History? We tend to like our truths clean and categorical, but sacred history defies such binaries. By Reza Aslan Reza Aslan is an expert on world religions. This personal ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

In Tom Edison’s Shaggy Dog, a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Edison discovers that dogs are intellectually superior beings. They’re so smart, in fact, that the canines found the easiest possible ...

In this lesson, students learn about the life of Kit Carson, a famous frontiersman from the 1800s. They then sift through a series of statements about Kit Carson to untangle fact and myth. While ...