Dura Europos was a forgotten Roman outpost in the Syrian desert. But when archaeologists dug it up, they found the most perfectly preserved military base of the entire Empire. This is the story of how ...

In a quiet gallery, a single turn of a Roman glass cup has rewritten what historians thought they knew about one of antiquity ...

For syracuse.com’s annual profile of veterans for Memorial Day, Gaworecki recounted the experience. He said he felt “a weight ...

Is Putin a traditional Russian leader or, on the contrary, – does he represent a new type? Peter Pomerantsev: Putin is not a typical leader of Russia. He is a model authoritarian leader of the ...

Analysis of drain samples at Vindolanda, the Roman fort close to Hadrian's Wall in northern England, reveal traces of ancient ...

Seven Rivers is story of the Nile, Danube, Niger, Mississippi, Ganges, Yangtze and the Thames. It is a story of imperial frontiers, alluvial gold, kidnappings, slavery, anticolonialism and creation ...

In Oplontis (today Torre Annunziata), the ancient city between Pompeii and Herculaneum in the shadow of Vesuvius, the earth ...

From the time he became the prime minister of Hungary, Orban was always interested in concentrating all the power in his hands.

On the anniversary of Goa’s Liberation Day, revisiting the 1787 Pinto rebellion — an early challenge to Portuguese rule, long ...