Fun fact: US president George Washington would never have known the above. He died in 1799, decades before paleontologist Richard Owen first coined the term "dinosaur" in 1842. Related: If You Lived ...

It’s hard to pinpoint when humans started recording and sharing knowledge of the past. But it’s estimated that they started early on. At first, there were cave paintings, and then language, which ...

People wonder, what some of the most famous historical figures really looked like? Bas Uterwijk provides the answer to this aching question. About a year ago, he started creating images with neural ...

It's important that we keep being interested in history. Even if we laughed it off, one of the most viral memes of this summer was quite poignant: we do live in the context of all in which we live and ...

It’s astonishing how deeply some characters weave themselves into the fabric of our collective consciousness, isn't it? Take Sherlock Holmes, for example. A ...

People were always aware that things like physical features and biological quirks tended to run in families, but no one ever really knew why. The 1940s marked a turning point when scientists finally ...