It's no secret that sight-seeing can be expensive. Yet exploring doesn't always have to leave such a hole in your wallet.

Ammianus Marcellinus was a Roman soldier and historian of Greek origin. He is best known for his work Res Gestae, which ...

Non-Western intellectuals and strategists have often wrongly equated domestic dysfunction and division in US democracy with ...

In Star Trek: Section 31, Philippa Georgiou returns to slay another day.

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a trove of 141 ancient Roman coins worth more than €300,000 ($310,000).

Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold. After that the take gradually declined, and ...

As one of history's most famous figures, many stop to wonder what Cleopatra VII Philopator really looked like.

With an owl in the palm of her hand, a cloak adorned with a gorgon’s head and a warrior’s helmet upon her swept hair, Athena, as depicted in a Roman statue from the first century C.E., is a remarkable ...

From ancient times to the present, urban fires have wrought havoc on cities, causing destruction and death on a massive scale ...

However, it was a fragile tolerance, and the Emperor Augustus had prepared invasions in 34 BC, 27 BC and 25 BC, which were ...

Join Tom and Dominic for the climax of their epic series on Charlemagne: the Frankish king turned emperor, who transformed ...

Heraclonas was the son of Emperor Heraclius and his second wife, Martina. In 638 CE, Heraclonas, with his mother’s influence, ...