Heather Whipps

Tattered and rusty orange, a map recently unfurled in Beijing has reignited an international war of words over who reached the New World first.

On his 300th birthday, a look back at the the wide variety of inventions.

A little known ripple in American history forced time ahead by 11 days in the inventor's era. This month, it's time to break out 600 candles.

Project brings back ancient building techniques in an eco-friendly test.

The oldest canals ever found in the New World suggest Peruvians used same tricks as Egyptians.

It may look like a fixer-upper, but what is buried beneath Oak Island might just make its estimated $7 million price tag worth the investment.

400 years after he tried to blow up Parliament, the religiously motivated Guy Fawkes is “an excuse for a party.”

It is the grown ups that should be afraid this Halloween. Not of ghouls and goblins, but of permanently scarring their children.

With Ron Howard's filming of "The Da Vinci Code" near Edinburgh, the destination of choice for fans of the novel is now Rosslyn Chapel, where real history rivals the fictional mysteries.