Pope Francis made a brief appearance on Easter Sunday to bless the thousands of people in St. Peter's Square, drawing cheers ...

In 944, Sayf al-Dawla established himself as the head of the independent Hamdanid Emirate of Aleppo. Sayf’s rule over his ...

Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite ...

It was hard to miss the note of alarm in a Hill headline on “Neo-Ottoman Turkey’s triumph over its regional rivals.” “Turkey,” Washington policy analyst Andrew Latham warned, “has carved out a new ...

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on Ancient Civilizations continues with an in-depth look at how ...

The British academic publisher, Routledge, has launched “Routledge Revivals” to re-issue some classic works that have been long out of print. Originally published in 1983, Barbarians and Romans is a ...

Israel’s military has transformed every bit of Gazan territory within about half a mile of the Israeli border into a wasteland. Armored bulldozers have systematically leveled one home after another.

But finding the dead, that is unique for the entire Roman history.” Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the 3rd century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a ...