Making of an empire. As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

Empire of the Ants’s multiplayer modes have some clever ideas for how insects do battle, having you scurry around as a commander giving orders and casting buffs on your legions of bugs.

The Oscar-winning SFX guru talks turkey sandwiches, space lizards, and making the awesome Battle of Hoth scene for "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back".

“Catholicism outlived the Roman Empire. We’ll outlive the American Empire too.” So a Jesuit priest once told me at a pub in New York during my time as an O’Hare fellow at America.Those ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

Empire of the Sun didn’t just play a concert; they created a living, glowing, shape-shifting world. Equal parts optical illusion, EDM sanctuary, Easter brunch and theatrical dream, ...

Lin-Manuel Miranda attends the opening night premiere of "In The Heights" during the 2021 Tribeca Festival at United Palace Theater on June 9, 2021, in New York City.

The chestnut trees of Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the continent's forests.

The American empire has existed since July 4, 1776 when it was declared as colonial elites revolted against the British in a quest to expand their territory across the mainland of North America.

Star Wars began by telling us the Empire is evil in A New Hope‘s opening scroll.An hour later we saw how true that was when Grand Moff Tarkin obliterated Alderaan, instantly murdering millions ...

The death ray of Archimedes. Archimedes (287-212 BCE) was a mathematician, astronomer, engineer, physicist and inventor. His greatest invention is the one that rescued Syracuse, the ancient Greek ...