How did a Bavarian professor end up creating a group that would be at the center of two centuries of conspiracy theories?
The Birth of the Illuminati and Other Intriguing Historical Tales
How did the Russian tsars meet their end? Who came up with our idea of what the devil looks like? And did you know Howard Carter nearly gave up searching for King Tut’s tomb?
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On a July night 100 years ago, the family's rule of Russia came to a decisive, bloody end.
In the Middle Ages European artists and theologians shaped a new terrifying vision of Satan and the punishments awaiting sinners in his realm.
British backer Lord Carnarvon wanted to call off the search for the lost tomb of Tutankhamun after six fruitless years of searching, but Howard Carter convinced him to stick it out for one more season—resulting...
Married at 16 to the emperor of Austria, Elisabeth—nicknamed Sisi—was a reluctant empress, struggling with royal life and sympathetic to the democratic struggles of the people in her new nation.
Napoleon made a bold return from exile in 1815 only to lose his last shot at empire in a crushing defeat delivered by the Duke of Wellington and the combined forces of Europe.
Before SARS and coronavirus, Spanish flu infected a third of the world’s population and killed as many as 50 million in the waning years of World War I.