The Simpson Desert in South Australia's far north is as remote as it is hostile.

The Italian Cultural Institute of New York Will Exhibit the Original Art Works that Graced Historic Sunday Magazine Covers Chronicling World History from 1899 to 1989

Highlights include The Kennedy Assassination, Man Sets Foot on the Moon, Wedding of Grace Kelly to HSH Prince Rainier of Monaco, The Italian Police Marching Down Fifth Avenue and Immigrants Entering Ellis Island
As Seen Through Italian Artists, Illustrators and Satirists

The gay history of Cambridge University will be revealed in a public lecture this Wednesday at Lucy Cavendish College.

The Voltaire Foundation at Oxford University has been awarded a substantial grant to produce the first scholarly edition of one of the first complete histories of the world.

New Zealanders are debating how best to honour Sir Edmund Hillary after his state funeral is held later this morning.

[a 72 year old vicar of a country parish, who all his life had dreamed of seeing Paris] found it possible to…[visit] the gay French capital. On his return, friends and parishioners [asked], ’And how, dear Vicar, did you enjoy your stay in the wicked city of Paris?’.’Oh very thoroughly indeed...But I must confess that my pleasure was marred from time to time...by a vague regret - mind you, a very vague regret - that I had never been in Paris before I gave my soul to God.’”

Move over, Archimedes. A researcher at Harvard University is finding that ancient Greek craftsmen were able to engineer sophisticated machines without necessarily understanding the mathematical theory behind their construction.

The present can tell you a lot about the past, but you need to know where to look. A new study appearing this month in Genome Research reveals that protein architectures – the three-dimensional structures of specific regions within proteins – provide an extraordinary window on the history of life.

Nigerians are celebrating the spectacular victory of the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria over the U-17 national team of Spain at the 12th FIFA U-17 World Cup Tournament, on Sunday, September 9, 2007, in the Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea. And this makes it the third time that Nigerian has won the FIFA Under-17 World Cup Tournament.

A compelling new study from the September issue of the Journal of Modern History reviews historical evidence, including documents and gravesites, suggesting that homosexual civil unions may have existed six centuries ago in France.

Glorifying treasure hunters and denigrating archaeologists is a poor apology for the destruction of our underwater heritage.

A huge, exquisitely carved marble statue of the Roman emperor Hadrian is the latest find from Sagalassos, an ancient Greco-Roman city in south-central Turkey. Archaeologists estimate that the figure was originally between 13 and 16 feet in height (four to five meters). It is, says excavation director Marc Waelkens, one of the most beautiful portraits of Hadrian ever found.