The Appia barreled through the country in a nearly straight line, carrying the Roman Army as the empire consumed southern Italy and embarked east ... There was no modern map of the route.

The Greek genocide and the Pontic genocide instigated by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish national movement is a dark ...

It found that during the Achaemenid Persian empire, between 559 and 330 ... to the major Iraqi city and the eastern province in modern-day Saudi Arabia. The experts wrote: “It is obvious that ...

Humans have established a permanent presence on nearly every continent, but how would the world be different if we had stayed ...

The Byzantines, more accurately known as the Eastern Romans, developed a distinctive architectural style that has continued to influence construction to this day. Not limited to ... used to describe ...

In the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I was asked once “how come a country can just take land in the 21st ... “Third Rome” (successor to both the Western and then Eastern Roman Empire) and a ...

At that time, two civilisations dominated trade in the Mediterranean, Greece and Carthage (whose legendary capital was located in modern-day Tunisia). They led a largely peaceful co-existence, the ...

I spent hundreds of hours on “Civilization” and its sequels, but I haven’t played many others in the genre beyond Amplitude ...

As the prospect of a permanent ceasefire looms over the battlefield, the geopolitical landscape of Eastern Europe and the ...

Pope Leo I helped to ensure that Catholicism would outlast the Roman Empire. His name is a reminder that our faith rises above contemporary politics and temporal authority.

An excavation at the Tell Abu Sefeh site in Egypt revealed sophisticated military fortifications from the Ptolemaic and Roman ...

Since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as the preeminent mediator for international conflicts regardless ...