Look beyond the world's usual city break destinations and uncover a collection of underrated, under-the-radar cities that ...

Putin’s forces strike Kharkiv with ‘most powerful’ attack since start of war - Kharkiv mayor says 22 people wounded in ...

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

An Fear Ciúin lives and works in the Irish midlands. He has a keen interest in medieval and early modern history. He’s ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

New World” and “Old World” are concepts still widely used to refer to the Western and Eastern Hemispheres, respectively, ...

Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is a Greek name, too, deriving from the Greek phrase "Is tin poli," meaning "to the city." ...

Their papacies were in the era of the Roman Empire, which stretched across modern-day Tunisia, the north-east of Algeria and the coast of western Libya. "North Africa was the Bible Belt of ancient ...

A sixth-century "mini" ice age may have been "the straw that broke the camel's back" that led to the final disintegration of the Western Roman Empire ... by the East Greenland and East Iceland ...

While barbarian conquerors created new kingdoms in Western Europe, the Roman Empire survived in the east until it fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Dr Kokowski said: "Among them were the Vandals ...