Stepping back into the annals of history, few figures loom as large and captivating as Charlemagne, a monarch whose life was ...

The wall is the largest Roman archaeological feature in Britain and was built to defend the northernmost limit of the Roman ...

Historian Tom Holland uncovers how politics, myth and maternal ambition collided in the scandalous reign of the Roman emperor ...

Nero, Rome’s emperor from 54 to 68 C.E., rose to power at a young age and remained focused on himself, letting the needs of ...

Historian David Soria dedicates a monumental biography, with special emphasis on military matters, to the first Caesar of ...

A software model from Google DeepMind put a more precise date on an important Latin text credited to a Roman emperor as a ...

Five lions – three lions of England and the lions of Bohemia. The Mace. The Sword. The Cap of Maintenance. The red cross on a ...

By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot. However, some new reevaluations of primary source documents and ethnobotanical ...

Security guards at Hagia Sophia stopped a fire attempt, an incident raising concerns over the safety of the 1,500‑year‑old ...

New research reveals the infamous Roman tyrant Caligula possessed extensive knowledge of medicinal plants, possibly for both healing and self-defense, according to historians.

Everyone rode bareback or with just a saddle cloth until about the fourth century A.D. Early European saddles had no stirrups ...