News on History
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| Vikings: From Ram-raiders to Fishmongers Archaeologists and scientists have revealed that 1,000 years ago cod was traded extraordinary distances across Europe |
£254m Battle of the Black Swan Dispute over sunken ship involves US firm, Spain and Peru, and raises British fears |
| 32 Years After Trying to Kill Gerald Ford, Woman Leaves Jail A woman who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975 as a statement against what she claimed was the US... |
Translation Project to Bring Cream of Foreign Writers to Arabs Books by Stephen Hawking, Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami and other star writers past and present have been chosen as the... |
| 80,000 Reagan Artefacts Missing From Museum A government audit of the Ronald Reagan presidential library and museum has failed to account for thousands of items of... |
Fresh Clues Could Solve Mystery of Poe's Death The 'shrunken brain' found in the horror writer's skull may explain the delusions of his last days. |
| America Remembers 9/11 Ceremonies take place across America to remember the attacks of September 11 2001, which led to the deaths of 2,993 people,... |
The German Heroes Who Helped Allies Against Hitler A new book reveals the bravery of the men who joined the British forces to liberate Europe. |
| Historic Berlin Synagogue Reopens Germany's largest synagogue, an architectural and historical landmark in the center of Berlin, will reopen today after... |
Poles Furious at German 'war Booty' Claim The Polish government is demanding billions of euros in compensation from Germany for cultural artifacts which were stolen... |
| India's Secret History: 'a Holocaust, One Where Millions Disappeared...' Author says British reprisals involved the killing of 10m, spread over 10 years. |
Hitler's Secret Musical Collection - of Russian and Jewish Artists He expelled Jewish and Russian musicians from concert halls during the Third Reich, claimed in Mein Kampf that there was no... |
| Archaeologists in Mexico City Find First Tomb of Aztec Ruler Archaeologists believe they have made the first discovery of a tomb of an Aztec ruler. Radar equipment suggests the tomb... |
Athenians Go to War Over Two Views of History A row about a building that guidebooks describe as a 'must-see' on the boulevard linking the Greek capital's great... |
| Nixon Dismissed Watergate As a 'republican Problem' Newly-released tapes and documents from the Nixon administration show the president was more concerned about Vietnam and... |
How the Nazis Took Flight From Valkyries and Rhinemaidens Bizet and Puccini more popular than Wagner - Bored party faithful were dragged to Master's works |
| Eugen Weber Obituary: Charting the story of modern France |
Change of Name for Iwo Jima The Japanese island of Iwo Jima has been renamed, 62 years after it became the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the... |
| Inca Warrior is Earliest Recorded Gunshot Victim in Americas Man shot by Spanish conquistador in 1536 - Traces of lead found on skull excavated in Peru |
Japan Announces New Name for Iwo Jima The Japanese island of Iwo Jima has been renamed Iwo To, 60 years after it became the scene of one of the bloodiest battles... |
| Ex-Klansman Found Guilty of 1964 Killings Federal authorities are under pressure to bring unsolved race crimes from the civil rights era to trial after a 71-year-old... |
Ex-KKK Man Guilty of 1964 Murder of Black Teenagers A 71-year-old man alleged to have been a member of the Ku Klux Klan has been found guilty of kidnapping and conspiracy in... |
| Former Un Chief With Nazi Past Dies at 88 Kurt Waldheim, the former UN secretary general whose election as Austrian president in the 80s triggered an international... |
Napoleon's Golden Sword Fetches More Than £3m Its gold-encrusted blade holds the secrets of the young Napoleon, who carried it into one of his legendary, seemingly... |
| Diary of 'polish Anne Frank' Published 64 Years on A teenage Jewish girl living under the Nazis in Poland during 1943 feared she was "turning into an animal waiting to... |
Pipeline Workers Find Mass Grave of Jews Killed By Nazis A mass grave holding the remains of thousands of Jews executed by the Nazis during the second world war has been discovered... |
| Where Dinosaurs Meet Methuselah A new museum in Kentucky merges evolutionary theory and creationism. |
Natural History Museum to Turn Park Into Carpark The Witte museum, a natural history museum in San Antonio, Texas, is planning to uproot the surrounding trees and replace... |
| Treacherous Seas, a Mystery Wreck - and a $500m Haul of Treasure Unprecedented find could be richest ever - 17 tonnes of gold and silver aboard 'Black Swan' |
Russian Tsar's Erotic Letters to Young Mistress Auctioned Yesterday some 22 unpublished erotic letters written by Tsar Alexander II to the woman he simply called 'Katia' - and by... |
| Aboriginal Remains Return to Tasmania After 20-year Fight The long exile has ended for 17 Tasmanian Aboriginal people whose remains, stored for more than a century in the Natural... |
King Herod's Grave Uncovered in Hilltop Fortress Archaeologists have unearthed the grave of King Herod the Great, the ruler of Jerusalem who attempted to kill Jesus soon... |
| Herod's Tomb Found After 35-year Search Clues lead to remains of stone coffin on hillside - Intifada disrupted search at site near Jerusalem |
Relic Find Halts Road Construction A controversial plan to build a motorway through an Irish heritage site has come to a halt 24 hours after the transport... |
| Squadron Leader Neville Duke Obituary: Fighter ace and record-breaking test pilot who played a key role in the development of the Hawker Hunter. |
Militant Feminist on Trial After 20 Years on Run Former Rote Zora member admits role in bombings - 58-year-old led quiet life after fleeing Germany |
| Piece of Berlin Wall Removed in Secret Government Raid One of the last remaining pieces of the Berlin Wall in the centre of the German capital was removed by... |
Link to Egyptian Mummy Shows Joan of Arc Holy Relics Are Fake Relics thought to be of Joan of Arc are forgeries made from the remains of an Egyptian mummy, according to scientists. |
| MI6 Cold War Spy Revealed As 'big Fish' Double Agent Russian unknowingly betrayed UK for 15 years - Then he did it on purpose for another 15 years |
Greece Talks Tough on Parthenon Marbles The Greek prime minister, deploying the strongest language yet for the return of the Parthenon marbles, yesterday said that... |
| Baader Meinhof Prisoner Freed Two Days Early to Dodge Media A former Baader Meinhof militant, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, was released from prison yesterday after serving 24 years for nine... |
Final Escape for the Master of Illusion? Houdini's Family Press for Exhumation Magician's descendants claim he was murdered - Poison tests to be carried out 80 years after death |
| US Communist Party's Archives Opened to the Public Lenin interview among 2,000 donated documents- Post-McCarthy era history given to New York library |
Lucie Aubrac Obituary: French resistance heroine whose later years were clouded by allegations that her husband was a Nazi informer. |
| Russia Displays Looted German Treasure Exhibition fails to end row over ownership of stolen artefacts. |
Letter Proves Speer Knew of Holocaust Plan A newly discovered letter by Adolf Hitler's architect and armaments minister Albert Speer offers proof that he knew about... |
| After Decades in Dark, Remnants of Stolen Lives to Finally Be Seen Largest collection of Nazi death camp records to be opened up to historians. |
FBI Hunts Last of the Lynchers In an effort to close a chapter in America's history of race hate, Washington is bringing elderly Klansmen to justice for... |
| Eternal Wonder of Humanity's First Great Achievements Only one still stands, but tales of the seven 'must see' monuments still grip the world's imagination. |
Iran's Rich Architecture and Rare Treasures Threatened By Possible Us Strikes Many ancient remains are close to nuclear plants - Archaeologists anxious to avoid repeat of Iraq chaos |
| Obama Told of Family's Slave-owning History in Deep South An amateur genealogist has revealed a surprise in the family tree of the black contender in the race to be the Democrats'... |
Found in India: the Last King of France Indian lawyer acclaimed as head of royal house - Prince Philip's cousin sets out 'incredible' theory |
| Arthur Schlesinger Pulitzer-prizewinning historian active in Kennedy's White House whose Camelot myth he promoted |
New Jfk Film: 90 Seconds to Assassination With a pink hat and a broad smile, Jackie Kennedy looks out on the crowd gathered in downtown Dallas, only 90 seconds... |
| Mussolini 'diaries' May Solve War Riddle Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of Italy's late dictator, has said newly found diaries, allegedly kept by her... |
Behind the Camera - Secret Life of Man Who Saved Jews From Nazis Ernest Leitz II Honour for German Leica manufacturer who sent prewar apprentices to US. |
| Adelaide Tambo Obituary: Heroine of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle through the exile years. |
David Rattray Obituary: South African historian whose storytelling gifts kept alive the memory of the Zulu wars. |
| Murdered in Rorke's Drift, the Man They Called the 'white Zulu' Tributes flood in for the man who championed post-apartheid reconciliation and who enthralled tourists and locals with his... |
Man Charged Over 1964 Mississippi Ku Klux Klan Murders The two young African-American men were still alive when their bodies were chained to an engine block and dumped in the... |
| Art Looted By Nazis Handed Back to Czech Family The family of a Czech lawyer who was tortured by the Nazis will get back three drawings seized by the Gestapo in 1939 which... |
Galliano Fetes 60 Years of Dior This year marks the 60th anniversary of the New Look, which established Christian Dior as the most influential house in... |
| Incroyable, But True ... France's 1956 Bid to Unite With Britain Newly uncovered documents have shocked historians by revealing that in the 1950s, Britain and France discussed the... |
The Waist Land: Researchers Find Key to Beauty A slim waist is a timeless, universal sign of feminine beauty, according to psychologists examining the works of romantic... |
| Goldoni Who? The Italian Moliere Shows Art Doesn't Translate The bicentenary celebration of writer Carlo Goldoni's birth gets into full swing this week in Italy, but the event does not... |
£94m Acropolis Museum Reveals Ancient Treasures A fabulous hoard of more than 50,000 pieces unearthed during excavations in Athens has also provided a window on to the... |
| Tuscan Church Reveals Answer to Mystery of Medici Deaths Picking through centuries-old rubbish, masonry and discarded body parts beneath an abandoned Tuscan church, an Italian... |
Japanese War Shrine to Soften Wording on Exhibits A controversial Japanese war shrine has decided to tone down its description of several exhibits amid criticism that they... |
| Revealed at Last - How Fbi Tried to Nail Lennon Clearly a man who sang "Imagine all the people/Living life in peace" was a major league subversive, but still the... |
Solved at Last: the Burning Mystery of Joan of Arc France's favourite saint was martyred by her English foes, who ordered her remains to be cast into the Seine. Now... |
| Boy King May Have Died in Riding Accident The world's most celebrated boy king, Tutankhamun, may have died after badly breaking a leg while playing sport. |
On the Trail of the Yangtze's Lost Dolphin An expedition is searching China's great river for any trace of the baiji but it may be too late. |
| America to Regain Lost Paradise A California valley disappeared under a reservoir 80 years ago. Dreams of reclaiming it are now coming true. |
Work Begins on Martin Luther King Memorial The three towering figures in American history - George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln - were joined by a... |
| 96-year-old Blazes a Trail on the Net Francis Bartels has a story to tell. Of his experience as a black man in Hitler's Germany and of his memories of his pupil... |
Up Pompeii - Ancient Brothel Restored The "wolves' lair" - ancient Pompeii's biggest, best planned and most richly decorated brothel - yesterday... |
| Wang Guangmei Obituary: Chinese head of state's wife rehabilitated after Red Guard persecution. |
Discovered After 60 Years, the Secret Agents Tortured and Killed A graveyard for secret agents recruited by British and US intelligence has been discovered by researchers in northern Italy. |
| Callas Takes Centre Stage Again As Exhibition Recalls Onassis's Life Passionate and previously unseen love letter among mementoes of golden Greek. |
Tourists Flock to Bosnian Hills But Experts Mock Amateur Archaeologist's Pyramid Claims In Bosnia's Valley of the Pyramids, Semir Osmanagic, a new-age philosopher and amateur archaeologist, claims to have... |
| Marie Antoinette: a Woman Wronged By Cunning English Blackmailers · Obscene papers found by Bastille mob in cruel twist · UK professor's theory puts blame on London gang |
Ewen Henry Harvey Green Obituary: Historian drawn to investigating the Conservative party though never tempted to vote for it. |
| TGV Marks 25 Years It has woken sleepy provincial towns, shrunk the map of France and even promises to matchmake lonely passengers. |
The Last Words of the 376 Prisoners Executed in Texas Since 1982 The last words of the 376 prisoners executed in Texas since 1982 are faithfully recorded on the state justice department's... |
| Gunter Grass: I Needed Time to Reveal My Waffen-ss Past Gunter Grass, the Nobel laureate whose confessions of SS membership during the second world war have shocked his native... |
'Ebola' Bug Wiped Out the Aztecs When a few hundred Spaniards landed in what would become Mexico in 1519, they marvelled at its bustling cities. But within... |
| They Fought for Britain. In Return They Were Given £10 Scandal of the African Second World War veterans who are now living in poverty. |
King's Treasures on Show in Dresden The extraordinary collection of objects of Augustus the Strong - Elector of Saxony, King of Poland and father of around 300... |
| Nanjing Judgment Opens New Sino-japanese Front A Chinese court has ordered two Japanese historians to pay damages of 1.6m yuan (£110,000) to a survivor of the Nanjing... |
How France Missed a Chance to Sink Bismarck New documents found in a dusty town hall reveal that the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck nearly drowned while swimming... |
| Q&A: The Yasukuni Shrine Justin McCurry on the significance of Japan's controversial memorial to its war dead. |
Koizumi's Final Shrine Trip Draws Protests The Japanese prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, sent his country's wartime victims a defiant valedictory message today when... |
| Grass Admits Serving With Waffen-ss Günter Grass, the Nobel prize-winning German author, has admitted that he was in the Waffen SS in the second world war. |
Pierre Vidal-naquet Obituary: French historian who opposed army torture during Algerian war. |
| Lost Document Reveals Columbus As Tyrant of the Caribbean Christopher Columbus, the man credited with discovering the Americas, was a greedy and vindictive tyrant who saved some of... |
Italy Fiddles While Rome Crumbles Limited funds and excessive rain threaten the Italian capital's ancient monuments. |
| Top Indian Civil Servant 'was Cia Spy' Moles, nuclear secrets, espionage in high places are all essential ingredients for a racy spy thriller - but they have also... |
Bog Discovery Hailed As Ireland's Dead Sea Scrolls Irish archaeologists are celebrating the discovery of their own Dead Sea scrolls after a bulldozer unearthed fragments of a... |
| Ta Mok Obituary: Number three in the Khmer Rouge hierarchy, his reputation for brutality was such that he became known as the... |
'Vile Conspiracy' Fuelled Nasser Legacy In the fifth of our series, we look at the bitter legacy of the war for Britain, the US and the Arab world. |
| Letters Reveal Relative Truth of Einstein's Family Life Documents show 20th century giant was generous, affectionate - and adulterous |
Sole Picture Unearthed of Composer's Widow The newly discovered black and white image is the only photograph ever taken of Constanze Mozart, the widow of the Austrian... |
| After 250 Years, France Falls for Marie Antoinette Newest celebrity in Paris is Austrian-born queen who was guillotined in 1793. |
European Man 'worked on Terracotta Army Tomb' Archaeologists have unearthed evidence that a foreign worker helped build the terracotta army mausoleum, the resting place... |
| 'Foreigner' Helped Build Terracotta Army Chinese archaeologists have unearthed evidence that a foreign worker helped build the Terracotta Army mausoleum, the... |
UK Forced to Return 'brutus Coin' to Greece A thimble-sized coin marking antiquity's most notorious murder, the assassination of Julius Caesar, has been returned to... |
| Martin Luther King's Private Papers Saved From Auction The documents include telegrams and cancelled cheques, 800 index cards with ideas for sermons, a blue spiral notebook used... |
Obituary: Ann Wood-kelly US woman pilot at the heart of Britain's war effort. |
| Eichmann's Hideout Kept Secret By Cia The United States was aware of the hiding place and alias of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi war criminal and architect of the... |
Eastwood Attacks Japan War Myths Two new movies based on a bloody 1945 battle are stirring up memories and forcing both sides to re-examine their history. |
| Shaka Zulu's Brutality Was Exaggerated, Says New Book Shaka Zulu, the 19th-century warrior king dubbed Africa's Napoleon, was not the bloodthirsty military genius of historical... |
The World in a Week Old bones, and a new crustacean. Spanish researchers resolved a century-old mystery over the grave of Christopher... |
| Obituary: Rosemarie Said Zahlan Historian of the Gulf states whose heart was in Palestine. |
Greek Gods Prepare for Comeback It has taken almost 2,000 years, but those who worship the 12 gods of ancient Greece have finally triumphed. An Athens... |
| Stasi Film Stirs Up Plaudits and a Spying Row The Life of Others, a film about the Stasi, East Germany's secret police, is at the centre of a row after its lead actor... |
Mark Oliver on the 100th Anniversary of the San Francisco Quake Today is the 100th anniversary of San Francisco's great earthquake and fire. Mark Oliver looks back at the disaster and at... |
| Auschwitz May Be Renamed to Reinforce Link With Nazi Era Poland has asked the United Nations to change the title of the Auschwitz concentration camp to remind visitors that it was... |
Obituary: Pierre Clostermann French flying ace who thrived on adventure in both air and sea. |
| Jonathan Jones in Search of the Truth About Michelangelo To mark the opening of a major new exhibition, Jonathan Jones traveled from the great dome of St Peter's in Rome to the... |
Obituary: Urbano Lazzaro The partisan who arrested Mussolini |
| The Real Secret of Khrushchev's Speech Fifty years ago a Soviet leader dared to criticise Stalin. But was this bravery or a cynical ploy? |
Obituary: Schafik Handal Guerrilla leader in El Salvador's civil war. |
| It Sounds Curious at Fir Healthy supplementuerrilla leader in El Salvador's civil war. |
Graf Spee Emblem Salvaged After resting its wings in mud off the Uruguayan coast for more than 60 years, the bronze eagle that once adorned the pride... |
| Rising Water Threatens Great Temples of Egypt Engineers are struggling to stop the damage caused by crop irrigation. |
Timeline: Shipping Disasters A history of some of the worst maritime accidents since 1900. |
| Telegram Service Ended Stop Regrets Stop Western Union has sent its last telegram. |
Lost Treasures of Constantinople Test Turkey's 21st-century Ambition £2bn train tunnel linking Europe to Asia faces delays as dig unearths 5th-century port. |
| Obituary: Manfred Alexander Manfred Alexander, who has died aged 85, began his working life as a bricklayer in Berlin and ended up as a property broker... |
How the Mean Streets of New York Were Tamed Twenty-five years ago, New York was a byword for urban violence. Its endemic crime spawned TV heroes, books and films. Now... |
| DNA Samples May Reveal Columbus's Origins A row over the origins of Christopher Columbus may soon be solved by DNA samples taken from possible descendants of his... |
Synagogue Found Behind False Wall A 16th-century synagogue has been uncovered in the city of Porto, northern Portugal, after builders tore down walls in a... |
| Obituary: Yao Wenyuan Last of the Gang of Four, one of the chief propagandists of the Cultural Revolution. |
Napoleon's Retreating Army Felled By Parasites According to new research by French scientists, the fabled Grande Armée, reduced to 30,000 men by December 1812 from a... |
| Unseen Photographs Capture America's Past An exhibition of photographs taken during and after the Depression is offering a rare glimpse of colour in a world that for... |
For the Record We have had saturation coverage of the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's death all this week, on radio, TV and press. We'll... |
| Hours After This Picture Was Taken John Lennon Was Dead This is the last photo of John Lennon. Well, let's say one from the set of the last known professional photographs. It was... |
Timeline: Iranian Air Disasters Chronology of major air crashes involving Iran in the last 20 years. |
| Obituary: Georges Guingouin A Communist maquisard, decorated by de Gaulle, who fell foul of a postwar backlash. |
Nazi Apologist Finds His Works in Austrian Prison Austria's authorities were facing acute embarrassment yesterday after it emerged that the controversial historian David... |
| Napoleon the Inspiration for Hitler, Says Historian Napoleon massacred more than 100,000 Caribbean slaves and should be remembered as a genocidal dictator and inspiration for... |
'Repentant' Irving to Plead Guilty But Must Stay in Jail David Irving, the discredited British historian of the Nazis, will spend Christmas and New Year in a Viennese jail after... |
| Holocaust Denial Charges Against Irving Austrian prosecutors filed charges yesterday against David Irving, the Nazi apologist historian branded a racist and... |
Beast of Belsen and His Lover in Nuremberg Exhibit The faces of two lovers who did terrible things to others in a terrible place were shown to a mass online audience for the... |
| Gendarmes Solve 92-year-old Mystery Over Crime of Passion Riddle of French villager's disappearance ends after skeleton is found in cave. |
Farmers Accused of Plunder at Ancient Site · Archaeologists say locals ruining cultural heritage · Iranian authorities issue jail threats and land ban |
| Mysterious Case of Death on the Nile, 4,000 Years Ago Excavations in Egypt have unearthed a grisly massacre at an ancient royal city. |
Holy Land's 'oldest Church' Found at Armageddon Prisoners help unearth remains at jail on site of final biblical showdown. |
| Dead and Buried War Hero Claims Medal 60 Years on It was only by chance that Georgy Ponomarev found out he was dead. |
Copernicus's Remains Found Under Floor of Polish Cathedral Team of Polish archaeologists discover remains of the man who developed the theory that the planets circle the sun beneath... |
| 'There Will Never Be Another Rosa Parks' Thousands of mourners lined the streets of Detroit yesterday to bid a final farewell to civil rights activist Rosa Parks,... |
Russia May Finish Stalin's 'railway of Bones' Exhibition in memory of project built on prison labour opens in Moscow. |
| Good Old Boys, Bad Old Days Murphy and Johnny sit on a bench at the bus stop where Rosa Parks started her now famous journey and shoot the breeze over... |
Rosa Parks Given Unprecedented Honour The late civil rights activist Rosa Parks will be the first woman to lie in honour in the United States Capitol Rotunda - a... |
| Jet With Jelly Beans: Reagan's Plane Goes Public Air Force One, the gleaming blue, white and silver Boeing 707 newly installed inside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library... |
Taking a Stand By Sitting Down "Y’all better make it light on yourself and let me have those seats," the bus driver, James Blake, told three... |
| Last Secrets of Nazi Terror - an Underground Labour Camp Trawl through Stasi archives stumbles across records of hidden horrors and hidden treasures. |
Doubt Cast on Archimedes' Killer Mirrors · Greek 'harnessed sun's rays to burn Roman fleet' · US scientists manage small blaze that fizzles out |
| Solzhenitsyn Papers Destroyed As Old Retreat Goes Up in Flames A fire has destroyed the country cottage where Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the former Soviet dissident, wrote some of his most... |
Exhibition's Warning From History TE Lawrence's ideas are shown in a recently unearthed map that is one of many uncanny links between past and present in an... |
| Stasi Spied on 'critical' Pope for Two Decades East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, spied on Pope Benedict XVI for more than two decades, regarding him as one of the... |
Author Fuels Row Over Hitler's Bomb · Germany 'came close to nuclear device in 1944' · Last living witness saw Baltic test explosion. |
| Obituary: Xiong Xianghui As a spy, he helped Mao to victory; as an envoy, he brokered the thaw with the US. |
Wiesenthal Buried in Israel Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who did more than any single individual to bring Nazi war criminals to justice,... |
| Obituary: Simon Wiesenthal Veteran Nazi-hunter and Holocaust survivor whose quest for justice set a moral standard for the postwar world. |
Ancient Villa Discovered Thanks to Internet Maps An Italian computer programmer has discovered the remains of an ancient Roman villa after browsing maps and photographs... |
| Tireless Voice of 6m Murdered Jews Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who did more than any single individual to bring Nazi war criminals to justice,... |
Ein Volk, Ein Reich ... Und Eine Disko A report, unread for 65 years, reveals the Nazis' top priority once they had destroyed the allies, exterminated the Jews... |
| Bulgaria Unearths Huge Hoard of Gold A 4,200-year-old hoard of gold, comparable to the fabulous treasures of Troy, has been found in Bulgaria to the delight of... |
Pardon for Maid Executed in 1945 Campaigners celebrate clemency for woman who killed employer. |
| Nagasaki Remembers Day of Destruction, 60 Years on Nagasaki paid tribute to its dead yesterday, 60 years to the day after the city was levelled by an atomic bomb in one of... |
Nagasaki Remembers Sixty years to the day after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, its inhabitants... |
| In the Southern Sun, Dark Secrets Are Rising On a hot night in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia, four black people were lynched and all investigators met a wall of fearful... |
Sixty Years and 242,437 Lives Later, Hiroshima Remembers As they lay dying amid the ruins of their city, the victims of the Hiroshima bomb craved one thing above all - water. |
| Wartime Codebreakers Missed Clues to Holocaust Coded Nazi messages intercepted by Britain could have exposed the scope of the Holocaust years before the liberation of the... |
Hiroshima: 'I don't blame them but I hope they mourn the dead' Sixty years later, the debate still rages. Was America right to drop the atomic bomb - both bombs? Did it truly face the... |
| Hiroshima: 'I saw both of the bombs and lived' Anyone who survived the world's first atom bomb blast must have felt the worst was past. But Kazuko Sadamaru was caught up... |
Hiroshima 60 Years On: Children of Hiroshima The mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki threw a terrible shadow over the 20th century. David Smith went to Japan to... |
| How Stalin's Favourite Hotel Hid a Tonne of Explosives For more than six decades it was the social hub of the Soviet elite. But this week it has emerged that the guests of the... |
Obituary: Melita Norwood Seemingly innocuous south London clerk who spied for the Soviet Union for more than 40 years. |
| Search on for Secret of Greek Sea Battle A team of experts are to trawl the Aegean for triremes, the ships that were crucial to the victory over Xerxes of Persia. |
French Embroidered Bayeux Tapestry, Says Historian A professor of medieval history at Western Michigan University claims the Bayeux Tapestry was the work of a French... |
| Klansmen 'hunted Down Civil Rights Trio' Jury begins hearing new attempt to gain murder conviction for 40-year-old Mississippi killings. |
Mississippi Burns As Dark History Finally Catches Up In 1964, three young civil rights activists were killed. On Monday, Edgar Ray Killen goes on trial for their murderWhen... |
| Repair of Acropolis Needs 20 More Years and £47m Thirty years after Greek conservationists launched the biggest restoration project in modern history, the government in... |
Markov's Umbrella Assassin Revealed After 26 years, police hope to bring killer to justice. |
| Relics of the Ruler Who Unified Japan Come to Leeds Delicate negotiations between British museum curators and a Japanese shrine have unlocked a 400-year-old chest of sacred art... |
Holiday Snaps Help Put Roof on Sagrada Familia It will have taken 126 years, but Barcelona's emblematic, eccentric cathedral-to-be, the Sagrada Familia, will be open for... |
| Obituary: Anne Buck Cultural historian and curator who nurtured a unique collection of fashion from the past. |
Caruso Love Letters Reveal Passion Behind a Life of Epic Operatic Drama More than a thousand previously unknown letters, said to have been written by the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso, are to be... |
| Swastika Drawn on Holocaust Memorial Vandals scrawled a Nazi swastika on Germany's new Holocaust memorial within hours of it opening to the public. |
60 Years On, Berlin Honours Hitler's Victims After years of controversy and delay, Germany opened its Holocaust memorial yesterday - a vast field of concrete slabs in... |
| Anguish of woman who held secret evidence of Hitler's identity In the smouldering ruins of Berlin, Elena Rzhevskaya stooped by a radio to hear the announcement of the Nazis' final... |
Trousers Button Up the Mystery of How Napoleon Met His Final Waterloo One of the enduring mysteries of Anglo-French history may finally have been solved by scientists - thanks to some pairs of... |
| Artists Create a Reminder of the City in Ruins Sixty years ago, after a ferocious Russian offensive, the centre of Berlin was in ruins. Now, the eerie landscape in the... |
'His Authority Was Extraordinary. He Was Charming' - Hitler's Nurse on His Final Hours Survivor of bunker tells of admiration for Goebbels' wife and hatred for Eva Braun. |
| Hitler's Nurse Breaks 60 Years of Silence A German Red Cross nurse who shook hands with Hitler on the evening before his suicide yesterday gave a gripping and... |
14 Held After Chicago Mob Betrayals Investigators in Chicago celebrated yesterday what was being called the most devastating strike against Chicago's criminal... |
| Armenians Look to Bush to Step Up Pressure on Turkey Over 1915 'genocide' International pressure on Turkey to recognise the 1915 massacre of more than one million Armenians as genocide is mounting... |
New Russians Gripped By Stalin's Old Spell As nostalgia for Joseph Stalin swells in Russia and the 60th anniversary of the Soviet victory over the Nazis on May 9... |
| Sub Wreck Could Reveal Japanese Peace Offer An American Vietnam veteran could be about to answer one of the most intriguing questions arising from the second world... |
A Drive Through the Woods ... to a Terrible Find Sixty years on, the world must not forget Belsen, says liberator. |
| Found: Hitler's Horrors in Full Colour Newly discovered colour footage renders the führer more vividly and uncomfortably real than ever before. |
De Gaulle is Greatest Frenchman To no one's surprise, France's iconic if cantankerous wartime leader Charles de Gaulle has topped a television poll to... |
| Scientific Sleuth Solves the Riddle of What Killed 'france's First Bimbo' King Charles VII's beautiful mistress was poisoned, says leading pathologist, but the murderer remains a mystery. |
How Hitler Spent His Last Days A new German film on Hitler's death has freed one old soldier to tell his story at last. |
| Tales From the Crypt That Bury Medici History in Ever Deeper Mystery Donatella Lippi calls it a "terrible problem". She and other researchers who have spent the past 10 months... |
Scan Reveals King Tut's Mysterious Injury The results of a CT scan done on King Tutankhamun's mummy indicate the boy king was not murdered, but may have suffered a... |
| Ancient Sky Map or Fake? German Experts Row Over Star Disc One of Germany's most acclaimed archaeological finds - a 3,600-year-old disc depicting the stars and the planets - is at... |
History of Modern Man Unravels As German Scholar is Exposed As Fraud Flamboyant anthropologist falsified dating of key discoveries. |
| Palace Find Lends Weight to Myth Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a royal palace in the heart of the Italian capital which dates back to the... |
US Guard Tells How Nazi Girlfriend Duped Him Into Helping Goering Evade Hangman Enduring mystery of the 1946 Nuremberg trials apparently solved. |
| Threat to Site of Greek Temple The remains of a fifth century BC temple, whose carvings conjured the golden age of Athens, is the subject of a row between... |
Italy Loses Last Veteran of Great War Italy's last surviving veteran of the first world war, Carlo Orelli, has died aged 110. |
| Survivors and Leaders Travel to Auschwitz World leaders will gather at Auschwitz in southern Poland tomorrow for the biggest ever commemoration of the darkest... |
Wall of Names for Museum Stone walls bearing the names of 76,000 people deported from France to Nazi concentration camps during the second world war... |
| Literature's Favourite Knight Errant Turns 400 Four centuries after he first set his lance at a windmill, Spain gears up to commemorate Don Quixote, its most famous... |
Forgers 'tried to Rewrite Biblical History' Hundreds of biblical artefacts in museums all over the world could be fakes, it has emerged after Israeli investigators... |
| Forgotten Locomotive, the Pride and Joy of Perón's Argentina, Found By Uk Team Engineers track down legendary locomotive which railway enthusiasts worldwide assumed had been scrapped long ago. |
Fresh Quest to Find Lost Heroine of Us Aviation A team of marine explorers is launching a fresh attempt to find the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed... |
| Al Capone, Lester Piggott and Now ... Adolf Hitler He is better known for invading Poland and starting the second world war. But Adolf Hitler was also an inveterate tax dodger... |
'I Hope They Can Hear Us' Amid the snow-covered fields of Auschwitz, where more than a million people were killed, an extraordinary 'music memorial'... |
| Fighting to Preserve Memory of 500,000 Gypsies Hitler Killed Most people know about the millions of Jews murdered in Hitler's death camps; less is known about the 500,000 Gypsies who... |
Mussolini Shared Services of Sisters Clara Petacci, Benito Mussolini's lover, took turns with her sister in the bed of Italy's wartime dictator, according to a... |
| Humans: a Short History Until just 12,000 years ago, there was a species of little people walking around. Finally they were wiped out, possibly... |
How the Stasi Spied on Thatcher During Visit to Berlin Wall Archives reveal that Margaret Thatcher's visit to west Berlin in October 1982, during which she made a stand against... |
| Mulk Raj Anand Dies at 99 Mulk Raj Anand, the father of the Indian novel in English, died yesterday from pneumonia aged 99. Born in what is now the... |
'New' Hemingway Story May Stay Unpublished A newly discovered short story by Ernest Hemingway indicates that part of the writer's ultra-macho image had its origin in... |
| How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can... |
Spanish Novelist Spied for Franco's Regime Nobel laureate volunteered information on dissidents. One of Spain's greatest modern novelists was an informer for Franco's... |
| Mandela's Lost Memories Recovered for the Nation's Future Prison notebooks hidden by police agent for decades are handed back. For three decades the notebooks gathered dust in a... |
Secret chamber may hold key to mystery of the Great Pyramid Amateur French Egyptologists on track of 'lost' tomb of Cheops. It is one of the seven wonders of the world, but the... |
| Genghis Khan 'was a Contemplative Chap' Genghis Khan, long perceived as the world's most notorious barbarian, was, in fact, a highly literate scholar of Taoist... |
Ireland Named As Latest Atlantis A geographer has claimed that Atlantis, first described by the Greek philosopher Plato as sinking under a tidal wave 12,000... |
| Young Bones Lay Columbus Myth to Rest A centuries-old historical row over the whereabouts of the body of Christopher Columbus appeared to have been solved... |
Dig Finds Ancient Stone Doll Archaeologists say they have found the remains of a 4,000-year-old stone doll on the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria,... |
| Che Family Album Presents New Image of Revolutionary A 305-page memoir, presented in Havana, Cuba, offers rare black-and-white shots from the Guevara family album of Che in his... |
Sacred Ethiopian Obelisk Caught in Italian Limbo Last November, the Italian government yielded to decades of pressure, agreeing to return a fourth-century, 200-tonne column... |
| Obituary: Winson Hudson On the countless occasions that Winson Hudson, who has died aged 87, went to the Mississippi courthouse to try to register... |
Obituary: Judge Richard May He made his mark in the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, presiding over the trial of Slobodan... |