We can remember the faces of famous historical figures from school textbooks. But sometimes we forget that behind the great names were ordinary people. Today, thanks to AI, we have the opportunity to ...

Painted portraits of famous figures reveal a lot about their likeness, with the mastery of artists being in their ability to capture someone's essence. Yet, they lack the true three-dimensionality and ...

The world is constantly changing, and eventually, our memory alone isn't enough to portray how things really were. It can distort important details, leaving gaps in our understanding of the past. That ...

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 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These history quizzes cover every corner of the globe and various difficulty levels. History buffs should have no problem with ...

Presidential superyacht Galeb, which was launched way back in 1938 and was used by former Yugoslav leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito, has been turned into a floating museum moored in Croatia's Adriatic ...

Let's talk about our great state of Michigan for a bit. National Michigan Day is celebrated every year on January 18. States are celebrated by the order they entered the union, starting in July, ...