Alice Roberts, the pink-haired professor, reminds us that she also has degrees in anatomy, medicine and surgery, as she ...

There's a moment in ancient history that reads like a fever dream. The Roman Emperor Caligula, sometime around 40 CE, marched his legions to the shores of the English Channel, arranged them in full ...

The island of Cuba has endured one of the longest blockades in history. Its sacrifice, however, has not been in vain.

HISTORY repeated in the fall of empire after empire — and looks set to do so with America’s global dominance. And the ...

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” points out that throughout history, elites have manipulated societies via economic, religious and military structures—from Roman patronage to feudal land control.

The year 476 AD is often described as the moment the Roman Empire fell. But what actually happened? Romulus Augustus was deposed by Odoacer, a Germanic general serving within the Roman system. The ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of ancient Roman marching camps in Saxony-Anhalt — a first for one of Eastern ...

In 122 AD, Roman emperor Hadrian ordered the building of a wall to mark his empire’s British frontier. How long did it take ...

New research examines how lead was used in Rome in daily life, and what archaeological evidence reveals about its health effects.

The footprints made around the time of Boudicca, Jesus and the Roman Empire, were spotted by local dog walkers.

UPDATE 3-South Korean court rules ex‑President Yoon guilty in insurrection trial ...

“Scots-Irish,” a popular label among American conservatives today, has long been a kind of shorthand for mythic ideas about ...