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." ...

The renowned Silk Road was a network of trade routes that spanned the Asian, North African, and European continents between ...

There are San Andreas faults in many places. They happen where two rigid continental masses slide past each other at fairly rapid pace. The San Andreas fault separates (‘connect’ would be the ...

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 ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also ... of Elusa in the north-western Negev desert ...