In 1827, Joseph Nicéphore de Niépce produced photographs using bitumen, and in January 1839 ... In 1844, he published The Pencil of Nature, the first book illustrated and published with photographs, ...

The sticky tar helped Neanderthals produce glue to make weapons and tools. The so-called factory — a carefully designed ...

The Blue Quran, which dates back to 800–900 CE, originally comprised of 600 pages. Today, only about 100 are known to survive.

Around 150 years ago, a young archaeologist, Anders Lorange, uncovered a giant Viking ship. He left a note in the mound for ...

Mark Munn of Penn State University believes that he's translated the inscription on Arslan Kaya, after 120 years of debate.

Only 100 pages from a single copy of the ancient manuscript are thought to survive, held in collections around the world.

Artist after artist tried to visualise the tower and bring into being an image of one of the most ambitious undertakings of man, weaving into this image different themes like lofty thought, ambition, ...

He is the author of many standalone crime and thriller books as well as several much-loved series, including the Amos Decker series featuring the eponymous FBI agent and the Atlee Pine series. Whether ...

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

With a memorable heroine, searing insights, and lyrical beauty, The Women is a poignant tale of courage guaranteed to move any book club. ‘Utterly absorbing. Kristin Hannah is singular in her ability ...

Abby Reinhard is a writer, editor, and native Jersey Girl. Before Best Life, she was working in medical writing, ...