Roman soldiers typically stayed at temporary camps for a few days or weeks before continuing marching. The Hoog Buurlo camp ...

A 55-year-old Chinese man was accidentally swept more than 28,000 feet over Northwest China while testing a paraglider ...

“Lead poisoning has been linked to increased rates of miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant mortality as well,” the study noted ...

Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...

While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

The relief depicts a woman, identified by archaeologists as the goddess Victoria, or Victory, according to the release. The ...

A sprawling, centuries-old mosaic was recently unearthed in Syria, shedding light onto life under Roman rule. The ancient ...

I spent hundreds of hours on “Civilization” and its sequels, but I haven’t played many others in the genre beyond Amplitude ...