Flavius Ricimer never wore a crown, but he pulled the strings behind the Roman Empire’s final days. Was he a brilliant ...

A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent.

In 60 AD, Queen Boudica led a fierce rebellion against Roman occupation, culminating in the infamous Battle of Watling Street. This documentary follows her dramatic rise as a warrior queen and her ...

The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and ...

It’s not every day that an event from ancient Armenian history is played out on stage, let alone in an opera. But that’s ...

From Hercules and Archimedes to Roman conquest, Billy Cotsis traces the rise and fall of Greek colonies across the Western Mediterranean — with Syracuse as their final stronghold ...

What was so special about Belisarius was that he accepted the bargain. Doing the right thing was enough. Serving his country, his God, and doing his duty faithfully was all that mattered. Any ...

Knowing that entire cities once thrived, then vanished without warning, is quite thrilling on its own. The thought of ...

Sweeney, star of the hit series Euphoria and films such as Anyone But You, hasn’t exactly been backing away from innuendo. “Hello, you dirty little boys, are you interested in my body” – long pause – ...

Elevated to a minor basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1993, this sacred Ugandan landmark has become a global pilgrimage ...

One of the most beautiful paintings in the Art Gallery of NSW is a little panel from the Sienese School attributed to Sano di ...

The whole point of the Book of Revelation is that evil is embodied in regimes that transcend any individual. However much his ...