Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect. Donald Trump’s shocking renaming of the ‘Gulf of America’ is just the latest rem ...

In 221 BCE, King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival warring states and established the Qin empire as Qin Shi Huangdi (The ...

This map depicts the kingdoms of the Successors c ... It was a time when Greek culture spread across and influenced a vast portion of an ancient world once dominated by the mighty Persian Empire. The ...

Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome battled Germanic people nearly 2,000 years ago.

Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery. They found intertwined skeletal remains in a mass ...

Brush up on the Pole family, Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire & the history that shaped the events in Episode 1 as seen on MASTERPIECE.

Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.

With origins dating back three millennia, Nowruz is rooted in Zoroastrianism – an ancient Persian religion that predates Christianity and Islam. It also remains one of the world’s oldest ...