Matt Damon is looking chiseled as he continues to spend time in Italy to film Christopher Nolan's adaptation of the ancient Greek epic poem ...

At the beginning of the 13th century, infamous leader Genghis Khan united the Mongols under a common goal — invading the Chinese empire. The land fell to the Mongols in an era that would later be ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 3,400-year-old town in Egypt with connections to the daughter of Nefertiti, offering ...

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Syria’s civil war drove a wedge between the residents of the small town of Maaloula, where two-thirds are Christian and ...

The Writers Theatre production considers language in all its contradictions, as a vehicle for understanding and ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the ...

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know how the rams were made ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only ...

Since the birth of humanity people have fought each other. Over time the ancient weapons have been replaced by more ...

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...