A man seen climbing up the Eiffel Tower in Paris has prompted mass evacuations near the famous Paris landmark hours before the Olympics closing ceremony on Sunday. The shirtless man was seen scaling ...

PARIS -- Paris authorities are building a permanent security belt around the Eiffel Tower. The renovations seek to protect against terror threats, BBC News reports ...

On May 15, 1889, the Eiffel Tower celebrated its official inauguration at the start of the 1889 Paris World Fair after more than two years of construction. Take a look back at the intricate labor that ...

The Eiffel Tower stands as one of the world’s most iconic landmarks. This edifice, amongst the most exquisite sites in Paris, has rightfully become a spectacular destination, where all tourists are ...

The Eiffel Tower was a completely novel design at the time it was built. At the time of its construction, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure ever built. That meant that the engineers had a key ...

The Eiffel Tower is an iconic cultural landmark of France. France today is unimaginable without the Eiffel Tower. Initially criticised by a section of French artists and intellectuals for its design, ...

Gustave Eiffel, who designed France's world-famous monument, had the names of 72 scholars inscribed on the base of the tower in golden letters. All of them men. More than 130 years later, Paris ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

Erika Eiffel one of a small group of people intimately attracted to objects. April 8, 2009 — -- We all see beauty objects, such as the symmetry and sleekness of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, or the ...

The Eiffel Tower has long captured the hearts of loved-up couples. Now a new film puts forth a fittingly romantic theory that the looming structure was built by its creator as a tribute to the woman ...

The centenary of the birth of the famous French Jewish engineer, Gustave Eiffel, who built the famous Eiffel Tower, in 1889, then the largest building in the world, will be celebrated throughout ...