The Eastern Roman Empire did not fall overnight. For centuries it faced relentless waves of migration — Lombards in Italy, ...

An empire already stretched by war suddenly faced a disaster it could not control. The Justinian Plague spread rapidly across the Eastern Roman Empire killing millions and weakening the economy.

China has executed 11 members of a notorious Myanmar mafia family that was infamous for duping victims in fake online romances. The Ming crime family was sentenced to death in September by a court in ...

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Poland’s armed forces say they secured 60 kilometres of the country’s eastern border in 2025 as part of the Eastern Shield programme, with significantly larger works planned for 2026. Polish military ...

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Fresco by Giovanni Cimabue in the Lower Basilica of Assisi. Credit: Cimabue, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5 One of the most intriguing cultural exchanges in European history is the significant impact of ...

History has remembered Attila (c. 406 to 453) for having terrorized the Roman Empire with a campaign of violence as the ruler of a nomadic Central Asian and Eastern European people known as the Huns.