When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite city – or so we thought ...

Historically, empires have gone to great lengths to secure potash, a mineral critical to agricultural production.

Nicholas Ostler, in his 2005 book Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, observes that the great languages have generally been the languages of the greatest traders and, especially, ...

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

A new study revealed which ancient empire had the greatest inequality, challenging beliefs about Rome and China.

These iconic European rulers are the gold standard when it comes to running an empire. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re ...

Join us for the first series of History’s Greatest Battles, where we’re heading back to the Roman empire.

Although most towns and villages in the Middle Ages in Europe possessed only one church for every parish, in contrast to ...

Ishiro Honda's «Godzilla», about an ancient sea kaiju awakened by the atomic bombings of World War II, changed the history of ...

The newly reopened market had topped my list of places to go in Greece's second-largest city, bringing together my two favourite things to look for while travelling: good food and tidbits of Jewish ...

with the view of the Midtown Manhattan skyline including the Empire State Building at center right. (AP Photo/Jack Harris, ...

Wolff says the Trump administration’s tariff strategy is borne out of an ahistorical “notion of the United States as a victim ...