What it is: A wooden and leather shield used by a Roman ... by soldiers from the Sasanian Empire of ancient Iran. Archaeologists found the skeletons of 19 Roman soldiers, complete with all their ...

An international team of researchers has succeeded in identifying and analyzing dozens of medieval graffiti in one of ...

For anyone trying to make sense of the situation on the continent, with Emperor Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire, and the pope, Kirsten Claiden-Yardley shed some light. “When Henry VIII declared ...