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 ...

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 ...

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 Over time the ancient weapons have been replaced by more ...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, ...

"These are ritual objects made specifically for burials and brought from Greece," explained a former archaeologist now ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the conscription of 160,000 into military service. The decree, which was reported by news agency Interfax and also published on the government website ...

An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs ... partly for the sea monster from Greek mythology that stirred up wild whirlpools by swallowing and expelling water. The new study was ...