History says ancient empires fell long ago, but what if one of them survived into our time? Beneath the surface of modern ...

The Nazi high command was put on trial 80 years ago in 1945. The new film Nuremberg draws on a little-known detail of the ...

While Afghanistan and Pakistan were engaged in a war this month, an image showing an India-Afghanistan border pillar from the ...

In the 19th century, Napoleon fused conquest with heritage. Expeditions to Egypt and Rome, and the building of Parisian monuments – the Arc de Triomphe and the Vendôme Column, both modeled on Roman ...

Both take on frontier violence and the challenge of finding drama in a foundational moment that many Australians don’t ...

Conceptions of individual rights that have guided modern civilization are rooted in a idea with biblical origins.

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In Croatia, archaeologists have discovered a mass grave dating back to the third century CE that indicates another key to ...

One of the first events to signal the collapse of Napoleon's reign was his crushing defeat after an invasion of Russia in ...

A mosquito that was believed to have evolved in the London Underground is actually of ancient Mediterranean origin, genetic data revealed.

Scientists identify 2 previously unsuspected bacteria that potentially contributed to the mass death of soldiers retreating ...