ΒΗΜΑ History
In August 1996, two young Greek Cypriots were murdered in the UN buffer zone by Turkish paramilitaries. The killings, caught on camera, exposed the violence of Cyprus’s division and the shadowy network of the far-right Grey Wolves
For over 1,500 years, the Lighthouse of Alexandria lit the Mediterranean and stood as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World—until nature and time reduced it to rubble, leaving only legends and a fortress in its place
A new scientific study offers a fresh theory on what killed Simonetta Vespucci, a young woman long linked to Botticelli's Venus
On August 6 and 9, 1945, the first nuclear weapons were unleashed on Japan’s cities—shattering lives instantly and reshaping history. Eighty-one years later, we revisit their devastation, the scientific motives, and lingering moral questions
Sixty-four years after Marilyn Monroe's death, questions about her final hours remain unanswered, while the remarkable journey from Norma Jeane to Hollywood's greatest icon continues to captivate the world
Ninety years after Ioannis Metaxas suspended Greece's Constitution and imposed authoritarian rule, archival records and historical commentary revisit how the regime was established and how the Greek press later reflected on its legacy
Nazi propaganda, the first torch relay from ancient Olympia, and Jesse Owens's triumph over the myth of 'Aryan supremacy'
Today's uncomfortable trends are mild next to fashion history's genuinely lethal fads
