When Odysseus encounters the Cyclops in Book 9 of Homer’s Odyssey, the giant’s first question is: “Who are you, strangers?

It was in the centuries following the Norman Conquest of 1066 that things really started to ... Nationality laws introduced the word citizen during the break-up of the British Empire - but only as a ...

Credit: Jim Forest, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The remarkable spread of Christianity by the Greeks of the Byzantine ... subsequent Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the Orthodox Christian ...

In 1204, an army of Venetians and Frankish knights captured and sacked Constantinople, the ancient capital of the Byzantine Empire. History has remembered this event as the culmination of the ...

It is believed to have made its way to England from the Byzantine Empire, according to Britain’s National Trust. Archaeologists began to find answers when missing pieces of the bucket were ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's mountaineering community celebrated the conquest of the world's highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and others who gathered for International ...

If the Jucul ones provide additional clues, she and her colleagues might one day be able to use them to crack open the lost history of the Inca empire ... to the Spanish conquest is especially ...

The actress, 48, shared an adorable photo on her Instagram of her 5-year-old daughter Nova in a movie theater as she reached up to point out her dad Norman Reedus, 56, posing in a poster for his ...

Day, 39, recalls rats as big as cats “like Master Splinter rats from Ninja Turtles” that would chew wires off people’s cars — and attributes the Empire Bins to a rapid decrease in rodent ...

Historic Observations: The Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the Norman Conquest of England, features a depiction of Halley's Comet. Mark Twain's Prediction: Mark Twain famously predicted that he ...

Texas-born actor Devin Harjes, known for his roles on "Boardwalk Empire" and "Manifest" has died after a battle with cancer. Harjes, 41, died Tuesday from complications of the disease at Mount ...

With non-fiction, I’m not so sure. I’m interested to know about the Norman Conquest, I really am, but do I need the six-volume, 5000-page account by Edward Augustus Freeman (as recently ...