Empires rise like wildfires—how do we measure their scars? One way to measure the march of human history would be the timeline of “The Empires.” The Akkadian Empire (circa 2334–2154 BCE), is widely ...

The erasure of Somali history began with the downfall of Islamic powers and the triumph of Christianity following the end of ...

A nearly yearlong excavation project in northern Switzerland is offering a glimpse into life in some of the Roman empire’s ...

In the summer of 2024, a team of archaeologists was called in at a housing project in Stuttgart’s Bad Cannstatt district and ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a vast horse cemetery from Roman times, a discovery that is "very rare," according ...

The mass migration of Koreans outside of Asia had only begun in 1902, when laborers were recruited to work on sugar ...

The coming papal conclave is just days away and, within days or weeks of the doors to the Sistine Chapel closing, the ...

Core elements of Roman law can be traced back to the ancient Greek world. Roman law has been fundamental to the foundations ...

The extraordinary colonia, founded by Roman soldiers between the 2nd and 3rd centuries, yielded several remarkable ...

Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.