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Deep in the bowels of London's Churchill War Rooms, shadowy figures are learning how to defuse bombs, crack codes and rooting out hidden microphones.

• 28 октября 2013, 15:00

Two pre-Columbian mummies more than a thousand years old were found in a pre-Incan cemetery in a suburb of Lima.

• 25 октября 2013, 15:30

A political genius, a great reformer, a patron of the arts -- but ancient Rome's first emperor Augustus was also a family man, as highlighted in a new exhibition that opened in Rome this week.

• 20 октября 2013, 21:00

Greece and Turkey, which share a history marred by bitter territorial disputes and Christian-Muslim feuds, are at loggerheads once again over religion.

• 11 октября 2013, 16:35

Japan should realize it was defeated in 1945 "not just" by atomic bombs and thus not challenge the post-World War II order.

• 09 октября 2013, 16:04

A Chilean education advisory group recommended Friday that schools use "dictatorship" rather than "military regime" in textbooks to describe General Augusto Pinochet's rule marred by rights abuses.

• 07 октября 2013, 09:38

Archaeologists drawing on a wide range of tools said on Wednesday they had pinpointed the crucial time in world history when Egypt emerged as a distinct state.

• 05 сентября 2013, 11:26

French President Francois Hollande and German counterpart Joachim Gauck pay a landmark visit to the ghost village of Oradour-sur-Glane where 642 people were massacred by Nazi troops during World War II.

• 04 сентября 2013, 18:19

President Barack Obama challenged Americans to enshrine Martin Luther King Jr's victory over racial oppression with a new "dream" of economic equality.

• 29 августа 2013, 17:01

The discovery in Peru of another tomb belonging to a pre-Hispanic priestess, the eighth in more than two decades, confirms that powerful women ruled this region 1,200 years ago.

• 24 августа 2013, 11:54

Angela Merkel will become the first German chancellor to visit the former Nazi concentration camp Dachau.

• 20 августа 2013, 10:54

A cold, dry spell that lasted hundreds of years may have driven the collapse of Eastern Mediterranean civilizations in the 13th century BC.

• 15 августа 2013, 16:22

Rare documents that a historian says fill in some major gaps in the story of Holocaust hero Oskar Schindler have gone up for auction online.

• 09 августа 2013, 10:41

Marilyn Monroe, who notoriously had an affair with John F. Kennedy, apparently believed she was going to marry the president.

• 07 августа 2013, 18:10

The city of Rome from Saturday barred private vehicles from using the main road to the Colosseum in order to protect the iconic monument that has been blackened by pollution and is in a poor state.

• 05 августа 2013, 01:38

Russian video game publisher 1C Company boarded a former US aircraft carrier to re-write the Cuban Missile Crisis that had super powers on the brink of nuclear war in 1962.

• 29 июля 2013, 10:00

Special QR codes will be placed on monument in the city of Taldykorgan in southern Kazakhstan.

• 25 июля 2013, 18:41

From a painting hung high on a blood-red wall, Adolf Hitler peers down on young students eating schnitzel and slurping German beer in Indonesia's Nazi-themed cafe.

• 21 июля 2013, 12:13

An original copy of the list of Jews Oskar Schindler saved from the Holocaust is up for sale on eBay, with the starting bid set at $3 million dollars.

• 20 июля 2013, 12:24

Over a hundred "burial jars" and a dozen coffins arranged on a ledge in remote Cambodian jungle have for centuries held the bones -- and secrets -- of a mysterious people who lived alongside with the Angkor era.

• 03 июля 2013, 10:32