The Royal George Hotel in Perth has existed since 1773. Queen Victoria stayed there in 1848, and there are two lamps in the hotel fashioned from the bed she slept in. Since March this year, the Stone ...

An extraordinary archaeological discovery has been made in Israel-a 3,300-year-old cave sealed since the reign of Ramesses II ...

Several decades ago, a national park was declared for some fifty square miles surrounding Troy and UNESCO declared it a World ...

Ridley Scott gets dragged for historical inaccuracies, but did product endorsements actually make their way into the ...

Regarded by historians with either denial or disdain, these women warriors have always had to fight for recognition ...

Rome experienced some of its greatest economic and cultural dynamism under Nero's rule, and yet he's called everything from a ...

It has cuisine to rival Beirut, history that outstrips ... of the kasbah, where ancient alleyways give way to French colonial ...

“Lumen” is part of the “PST ART: Art and Science Collide” series currently mounted at various sites around LA. Special installations by Pasadena-based Helen Pashgian and Charles Ross, both artists who ...

For most of our evolutionary history, human activity has been linked to daylight. Technology has liberated us from these ancient sleep ... candles, oil and gas lamps, and finally electric lighting.

During a Diwali celebration at the Vision Learning Center in western Henrico County on Sunday, Sanjeevan Swain, 13, read his essay explaining the history ... clay oil lamps outside their homes ...

Christiana Herringham led a historic project, involving some of India’s greatest artists, to copy Ajanta images so that they ...

Enjoy special guest takeovers, music mixes, and a whole host of brilliant storytelling this Christmas on BBC Radio and BBC ...