History

Wearing helmets as heavy as a medieval suit of armour, divers had one hour to fill their baskets with pearl or trochus shells.

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Western Australia's deaf community is celebrating its proud history and pioneers, including a family that drove changes to help meet the needs of people without hearing.

A rag-tag team of engineers, commercial divers and rev-heads have driven 7km under water across the Darwin Harbour, in a stunt they claim has broken two world records.

How a tin miner living in remote Tasmania helped discover what may be the world's oldest and most mysterious clone that has excited scientists for years.

Beneath metres of sand at Inverloch the Amazon, one of Victoria's best-preserved shipwrecks, still has stories to tell but concerns are growing about the effect of erosion and the pounding sea.

For almost three decades, Broken Hill resident Don Mudie has been campaigning for a civic building to be renamed to honour Fred Jobson, 50 years after the artist died.

Migrations don't just happen, they're produced. It's a thread Alan Weedon followed as he retraced his mum Jesusita's story after her death.

Previously only referred to in ancient Roman texts, the long-lost theatre of emperor Nero is found under a garden in Rome.

The new Oppenheimer film stirs up a conflicted history for US residents, who still face health issues stemming from nuclear tests almost 80 years ago.

A retired farmer says his 1,000-strong rare-coin collection has been stolen along with its heavy safe, which would have needed "four people to lift".

An auction house says the nieces of a man who was killed after destroying three Japanese machine gun posts in 1942 decided to sell his medal because there was a lot of responsibility in safeguarding it.

Each year, millions of Shiite Muslims flock to Karbala in Iraq to mourn Imam Hussein. So what does Ashura mean to them? 

Despite receiving a certificate of bravery at the time, George Manly Killen's life-saving actions have been left out of the history books, but his descendants want to change that with a plaque commemorating the historic deed.

The Australian War Memorial in Canberra believes there may have been 17 times as many Indigenous Korean War veterans as previously thought.

Over 350 Australians lost their lives in the 1950-1953 war between North and South Korea and their allies, which has never officially ended.

Researchers at the Australian War Memorial have identified more than 60 Indigenous men who served in the Korean War, and their sacrifice has been honoured for the first time.

The story of diet drugs is one full of miracle cures that often don't live up to the hype or come with serious side effects.

Today is Wednesday. But for some Indonesians, it's not just any Wednesday — it's a "Pon Wednesday". The Indonesian president has picked this special day to announce several major decisions, including several cabinet reshuffles. 

Britain is having a belated reckoning with its slave past — a past that is closely connected to rum.

Archaeologists find at least 125 tombs in a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery discovered in Gaza last year, most with skeletons still largely intact, and two rare lead sarcophaguses.

An excavation team examines sarcophagi and archaeological finds from 125 tombs at a Roman-era burial site in Gaza.

More than eight decades after Australian soldiers were transferred from temporary graves on the Kokoda Track to a wartime cemetery, a chance discovery reveals the task was never quite completed.

In 1975, Indonesia troops invaded Timor-Leste, targeting, among others, the Chinese Hakka ethnic minority. These people remember what the day was like.

Lois Peeler hopes the ball will keep helping future generations of Indigenous women find pride in their identity.