Louis XIV's real cause of death has been revealed after a team of researchers studied DNA from his mummified heart. The King ...

Doctors thought they knew what killed Louis XIV in 1715. Then his mummified heart revealed something unexpected.

Texas has been a land under control of many different flags in its long history. From the early Native American tribes to the European colonial powers to the United States, each era has left an impact ...

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Louis XIV was King of France for a whopping 72 years. As his sobriquet, “The Sun King,” suggests, Louis came to symbolize the big, bright, magnetic pomp of the French monarchy at its peak. Behind the ...