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 ...

In this webinar Hugh will share his research on the thousands of giant skeletons that have been found in North America and look at the phenomenon based upon the written evidence in the academic record ...

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 ...

Fans who have enjoyed Troy might be looking for similar films that explore ancient battles as well as legends. Here is a list ...

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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 ...

Eve Meets DanteGreta Sykes, Vanguard Press, £12.99EVE MEETS DANTE by Greta Sykes is a remarkable new novel that puts women ...

In this painting, The Banquet of Cleopatra, also by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), Cleopatra’s pearl is in her outstretched hand as she likely tells Mark Antony in regal Roman dress how she ...