The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...

From viral memes to bestselling books, Hollywood blockbusters to history podcasts, the fascination with ancient Rome refuses ...

Henry Gee’s previous book, A Brief History of Life on Earth, made an interestingly downbeat read for a title that won the UK’s science book prize. He emphasised that a constant feature of that history ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far ...

The old world is dying, and the new one is struggling to be born. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is ...

The assault on Enlightenment values is tearing both Europe and America apart.

THE MOSAIC CHURCH is a documentary streaming on Angel Studios. In the region of Megiddo, Israel, a team of archaeologists ...

Rome accepted and then embraced Christianity during the last 150 years of the Empire — from Constantine’s legalization of the sect in 313 to the fall of the Western Empire in 476 — and more ...

The ascendant right can’t allow itself to fall into the same kind of self ... which would again signal to Russia that the western empire is fracturing. Meanwhile, Trump has lashed out at Taiwan ...

I think there is more to the fall of the English Cricket Empire than this. The English media savages the performances of their side but seemingly like the ECB, they appear largely bereft of ...