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

During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great ...

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 ...

Art Deco became the defining style of the interwar years. But its bold glamour rested on a questionable patchwork of ...

While the mayors of the cities did sign a peace treaty in 1985, it was a symbolic gesture. In reality, the wars between the two ancient civilizations ended more than 2,000 years prior when Rome ...

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 ...

Pete Hegseth is a modern-day Narcissus: preoccupied with image, extravagantly unqualified for his position yet ...

In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.

Napoleon: Napoleon Bonaparte was a French general who, after rising to power during the French Revolution, carried out a ...

The Courant’s arts picks for Oct. 19-25 include Shakespeare adaptations, live history podcasts, a dance troupe and ’90s ...

A unique sculpture of Gajalakshmi, which stylistically belongs to the 10th century AD, was found in Valvanti river at Parye ...