More than 2,000 years ago, someone drafted a list of what they thought were the seven man-made wonders of the ancient world.

When the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt was completed ... he founded its celebrated library, commenced a record of Egyptian history, and established a thriving trading hub that connected ...

Alexander the Great is one of the legendary conquerors of ancient history who sparked the imagination of generations of ...

The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the entire ancient world. It was part of a larger research institution called the ...

Amazon has called its latest AI assistant Rufus. But what is the story behind this unusual moniker and how does it compare to the way other AIs have been named?

Hackers struck the Internet Archive, leaking millions of users’s data and causing founder Brewster Kahle to take a sprawling library of online history offline.

Many ancient alchemical texts have been lost or destroyed. The oldest alchemical books were created in Egypt and, due to ...