As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

What was the vitriolic report of Liutprand of Cremona, whose insults towards the Byzantines created a caricature of the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what could be a significant Iron Age Roman settlement, potentially including a Roman villa, ...

Introduction Europeans did not think we would find out about our black human species that inhabited Europe before the arrival of the Caucasians from the Caucasus Mountains in Central Asia .

Excavations of the northern defensive ditches of Magna Fort have revealed 32 shoes buried in the “semi-anaerobic low oxygen deposits,” according to a July 2 news release from the Vindolanda Charitable ...

As the Western Roman Empire crumbled, its enemies often labeled as "barbarians" didn’t just attack a superpower, they picked ...

A blue plaque on the wall of the former home of Dame Rosemary Jean Cramp was unveiled in Durham on October last year.

Then again, the Sega Jurassic Park is, similarly, a'ight. It's not a fantastic video game. You're either Dr. Alan Grant - in ...

The economy of the Roman Empire : quantitative studies by Duncan-Jones, Richard Publication date 1982 Topics Rome -- Economic conditions -- 30 B.C.-476 A.D Publisher Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

While history books are full of tales about the Roman Empire, the Spanish Empire, and China’s various dynasties, there’s precious few details about one of the world’s earliest empires—and ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...