This is the eightheenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time ...

THE most remarkable feature of the meteorology of the northern hemisphere for August, 1878, as compared with ... at New York being 0.150 inch. In Europe this lowering of the pressure extended ...

trying to match the route with some of the battle maps from 1877 and 1916 that I had with me in my bag. For most of my life, I had never heard of Kars; now I was coming to the view that its fate ...

The intricately carved rock pieces were recovered during dredging for the water metro project near the iconic Chinese fishing ...

We can think of cemeteries as spooky places scarred by sadness, or as beautiful and instructive windows into the lives of ...

Connecticut is dotted with charming towns, but Essex stands in a league of its own – a triple threat of maritime heritage, ...

Summer sees the town at its most vibrant, with outdoor concerts, farmers markets, and the annual Shad Bake—a culinary tradition that honors the Connecticut River’s once-abundant shad runs with a ...

Pope Leo XIII, who served from 1878 to 1903, led the church into the modern world, emphasizing its moral authority beyond ...

Johannes Putsch’s 1533 map personified the continent as a queen and inspired a wave of mapmaking that depicted places as people, animals, and even plants. "Europa regina" ("Queen Europe") is ...

Swedish archaeologists uncovered medieval monastery ruins in Derome, thanks to a history enthusiast's research of old maps ...

Because this map wasn’t just a record. It was a reframing… The year was 1878. The British had just assumed control of Cyprus from the Ottomans as part of a secret agreement. Officially ...

But months on, the U.S. has still not produced a road map sketching out which capabilities Washington plans on withdrawing from Europe, and what the continent will have to urgently replace ...