Greece dismissed criticism from Turkey over a map presented as a gift to Patriarch Bartholomew, saying the gift was "purely ...

A hodgepodge of East and West, Mithridates’ Pontic Empire emerges as a compelling possibility of what Alexander's empire could've been.

Cyprus is an EU island nation in the Mediterranean. Discover its ancient history, unique culture, and status as a high-income ...

Step back in time in this incredible Provençal city filled with Roman ruins… Arles is a city where it feels like you’re ...

It would be hard to develop a calendar, with no clear sight of direction of the sunset, let alone moon phases, and solar ...

New World” and “Old World” are concepts still widely used to refer to the Western and Eastern Hemispheres, respectively, first adopted in European society after Christopher Columbus arrived in the ...

Excavations at Holme Hall Quarry, between Doncaster and Rotherham, have revealed how the landscape was transformed into ...

Victor Davis Hanson compares America's current historical moment to the period surrounding the life of Christ, when the Roman Republic transformed into the Roman Empire, during an interview with ...

It’s one of only four known Roman camps in the Netherlands and was really just a rest stop between larger fortifications.

Rome took about 700 years. The Roman Empire officially launched in 29 BC following the murder of Julius Caesar and the fall of Antony and Cleopatra — once considered the hottest couple of the ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according ... which ...