The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

The Kingsway Exchange Tunnels were built in the 1940s to shelter Londoners from the Blitz bombing campaign during World War II. That was the last time they were open to the general public.

The cache from Vilnius Cathedral, in Lithuania, has not been seen since the outbreak of World War II in 1939, according to a press release from Go Vilnius tourism promotion agency on Wednesday.

Here is an exclusive excerpt from writer Joseph O’Connor’s new World War II thriller The Ghosts of Rome. It’s the second in the best-selling author’s Rome Escape Line trilogy. They’re ...

Lead pollution in ancient Rome may have dropped the average IQ ... it was concluded that the levels of background lead pollution would have been so severe at the time that they would have affected ...

But many have occupied themselves with questions about the role of Jews in ancient Rome’s famous bloodsport ... Julius Caesar gave Jewish high priest Hyrcanus II, and his sons and ambassadors ...

including his war elephants, across the Alps and had won several battles in Italy, even while Scipio, the younger of the two, was still rising through the Roman ranks. Rome’s senior commanders ...