An erotic mosaic stolen from Pompeii by a Nazi captain during World War II was finally returned to the ancient site on ...

An mosaic panel on travertine slabs from the Roman era has been returned to Pompeii after being stolen by a Nazi German ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

In this second episode of the series, we explore even more incredible WWII aircraft nose art and the personal stories behind them. Each painted aircraft carries emotion, personality, and memory from a ...

DORSET, in the Southwest of England, is home to a stunning vehicle with a dark, unexpected past. Andy Saunders, a car fanatic who has bought and rebuilt 58 vehicles, has transformed a 70-year old ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki was discovered more than 2,600 feet below the ocean's surface near the Solomon Islands.

The staff at the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum have just completed a project to digitize more than 1,000 photographs taken ...

This generously illustrated volume starts by examining the art produced in reaction to the Spanish Civil War (often viewed as "the first battle of World War II"), and then looks at painting, sculpture ...

The film won the Golden Bear at the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival, and Martin Scorsese has also cited it as his ...

We’ll never know about all the paintings destroyed or stolen by the Nazis in World War II. Were there forgotten Vermeers? Trashed Picassos? But what we do know is that a woman named Rose Valland ...

During World War II, resistance to the Nazis took many forms. In a Paris museum, an archivist risked her life to clandestinely record the looting of art treasures.

World War II veterans return to Normandy's beaches for the 81st D-Day anniversary, with about two dozen mostly centenarian former servicemen receiving warm welcomes from local French people.