The Roman Empire’s conquest of Dacia and Mesopotamia marked two major expansions—one in the rugged north, the other into the ...

A new study reveals that the Maiden Castle burials, long thought to result from a Roman attack, were instead the product of ...

Until very recently, reports of Israeli forces entering the Old City on June 7, 1967, stated that IDF chief rabbi Shlomo ...

From Hercules and Archimedes to Roman conquest, Billy Cotsis traces the rise and fall of Greek colonies across the Western Mediterranean — with Syracuse as their final stronghold ...

“Ghosts of a Holy War” connects the dots between the extremist antisemitic theology and incitement of the mufti of Jerusalem, ...

Ping-pong bots, drumming chimps, picking styles of two jazz greats, and an ancient underground city’s soundscape.

Roman rulers upheld order through crucifixions and terror. Jesus, by contrast, showed that true authority is rooted in ...

The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and ...

AD, the Roman Empire stretched from Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa reaching its maximum size of roughly 5 million square ...

Duncan Weldon’s ‘Blood and Treasure’ argues that following the money is the best way to understand the roots of conflict ...

This is the twentieth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe, Turkey, and the Near East to Georgia and ...