After conquering Egypt, Greek and Macedonian military leaders took power and made Alexandria a center of commerce and ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

A new social media trend, fueled by AI, imagines how historical figures would have used Snapchat. Users are creating videos ...

Over the past week or so, a disturbing question has migrated from the fringe corners of the internet into the bloodstream of ...

Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom, directed by Guillaume Canet and starring Gilles Lellouche and Marion Cotillard, ...

In a world where small nations get devoured by bigger ones, Singapore did not disappear. That — and its astounding economic ...

When people think of the historical “Celts,” they are really thinking of the various peoples that lived across the European ...

Julius Caesar arrived in Alexandria days after ... Not only did she command an army and navy, negotiate with foreign powers and preside over temples, she also dispensed justice and regulated ...

The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

1944: The first Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz. On the same day, General Dwight D Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force. 1945: US 7th Army & ...