This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: ...

The relief depicts a woman, identified by archaeologists as the goddess Victoria, or Victory, according to the release. The counterpart to Greek goddess Nike, Victoria personified victory and was ...

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The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

Short and sweet. Epic has already revealed what the new map will look like--we're getting four new named locations, each of which will occupy a corner of the map. The updated battle royale map for ...

It represents the addition of three Imperial Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in Liaoning to the Ming tombs inscribed in 2000 and 2003. The Three Imperial Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in Liaoning Province ...

Historians no longer speak dismissively of the ‘Dark Ages’, that deep trench between the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West ... Many discarded the notion long ago and wrote of the Carolingian ...