The first guide to drinking is a Latin poem published in 1536

A momentous change in the status of women began in the 1950s

As Greek geometry developed, it created the concept of an angle as a magnitude

In classical times there were no punctuation marks or spaces between words. Here's how that changed

The earliest graffiti of a person’s name on a monument has been identified by the historian Lionel Casson in a cave at Wadi Hammamat in Egypt — the name of Hena, an official under Menutuhotep III in 2000 BC

The Aliens Act of 1905 created a new type of immigrant to the U.K. and a new way of dealing with them