Mussolini's ambitious plan to forge a new Roman Empire in North Africa and the Mediterranean quickly unraveled due to the[...

At five am on the 3rd of October 1935 Italian forces crossed into Abyssinia, modern day Ethiopia, signalling the start of the Second Italian-Abyssinian War. Protesters shouted 'no king' while American ...

The world’s fascination with ancient Egypt is a cultural "heritage" passed down from the Greeks and Romans, said Vincent Rondot, Egyptologist and former director of the Egyptian Department at the ...

Dong Xuyang jumps out of a box onstage at the China Wu Opera Grand Theatre in Jinhua, Zhejiang province. [Photo by Geng Feifei/China Daily] Wuju Opera is finding new and young audiences through global ...

Integrating Western orchestral instruments with traditional Chinese ones, the artists from the troupe make the ancient art accessible to young and international audiences. [Photo by Geng Feifei/China ...

San Andrés Mixquic, Mexico (CNN) — The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds. Ángel Jiménez del Aguila, who died in ...

For more detail on these diverse ingredients in traditional Chinese apothecaries go here. Items not to scale. Photographed at Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine, Santa Monica, ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had mistakenly taught their students about the wrong Roman ...