History in Photos

Bodie, California was once a prosperous gold mining town, home to thousands of residents in the 1870s and producing millions of dollars worth of gold …

When Ernest Shackleton set out aboard Endurance on his disastrous attempt to cross Antarctica, another ship, Aurora, was traversing the icy seas on the …

For centuries, religious monks and nuns have retreated from popular society to lead isolated lives of solitude, self-awareness and religious devotion. …

Against the backdrop of World War Two and the Cold War, the Soviet Union embarked on a programme of rapid military expansion outside of its borders. …

Flood myths are common across the globe. But to find settlements that were conquered by the sea, you needn’t scour the stories of Plato’s Atlantis, …