Arbalest flame-thrower spewing Greek fire, Byzantine Empire (reconstruction). Thessaloniki Technology Museum. Credit: Gts-tg/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0. Greek fire was the mysterious weapon used ...

Yorktown softball lost 2-0 to Western in the regional championship, ending their season. Yorktown's pitcher Olivia Jones struck out 12 batters but gave up seven walks, including a bases-loaded ...

The Lord of the Rings trilogy consists of adventure and fantasy films, the director of the entire trilogy is Peter Jackson, and the trilogy is based on The Lord of the Rings book by J. R. R.

The Roman Empire meme just got real. Anno 117: Pax Romana lets you try building Rome in a day with better roads, buildings, and more strategy. Anno 117: Pax Romana lets players try to build Rome ...

At some point rather early in the spring of 1947, a Bedouin boy called Muhammed the Wolf was minding some goats near a cliff on the western shore of the Dead Sea. Climbing up after one that had ...

One popular image depicts the four panels comprising Victorian painter Thomas Cole’s The Course of Empire showing the decline and graphic destruction of the Roman empire. This is accompanied by the ...

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, a new study claims. Between A.D. 536 and 547 ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons ...

Many historians agree that the fall of the Western Roman Empire, usually dated to the fall of ancient Rome in 476 CE, marked the end of classical antiquity. What they don’t always agree on ...

That distinction Saturday night went to Western Michigan, a 6-2 winner over a valiant Boston University team before a pro-Broncos crowd at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis. “It’s hard to get ...