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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls, as they are best known, were discovered in the mid 20th century at the Qumran caves in the occupied ...

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

Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of ...

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 ...

The famous nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" from grade school tells the story of a character of fragility who took the risk of ...

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 ...

In the end, the head of the Post Office suffered an ironically feudal fate: Formerly a Commander of the Order of the British ...

Tribune columnist Marc Hyden announced the international release of his fourth book on Roman history, "Emperor Titus: The ...