Vikings Wore Horned Helmets Into Battle Vikings never wore horned helmets during combat, despite what countless movies and ...

In the final days of Socrates’s life, as he waited for his execution in an Athenian prison, his closest friend, Crito, visited him, waking him from a glorious dream. In that dream, a woman in white ...

Myth 1. Caribbean history started with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 -- Myth 2. The Arawaks and Caribs were the two major groups in the precolonial Caribbean -- Myth 3. Columbus met ...

Long before the Cherokee and other Native tribes called the Appalachian Mountains home, legends speak of a mysterious people who wandered the hills under the moonlight. Known as the Moon-Eyed People, ...

Erroneously known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan in fact served as the battlefield of the world. Long before the name Afghanistan appeared in written record, the region formed one of the ...