The New York Times has more information on the damage done to Aleppo and its Old City during the continuing conflict between Syrian government forces and the insurgents. Within the Old City’s walls, a medieval Citadel rests on top of Bronze Age and Roman remains, and a 5,000-year-old structure known as the Temple of the […]

In 1995, after a long search, the French supply ship La Belle was discovered in the waters of Matagorda Bay by a team from Texas A&M University. The ship sank during a storm in 1687, while explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle was looking for the mouth of the Mississippi River with four ships […]