How did the Holy Roman Empire come into being? This video traces its origins from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of ChristianityAlice Roberts, Simon & Schuster, £22IN her latest book ...

Officially known as the German Reich, Nazi Germany was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when it was headed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party, who governed by way of a totalitarian dictatorship ...

Pope Leo XIV has woven the language of unity, fraternity, and peace throughout his trip, repeatedly invoking the plight of ...

Luke Kemp, from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, is one of the talking heads in the BBC's new history ...

Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

Instead of uniting all that was politically, economically and morally best in Europe, it has exposed itself as a self-important talking shop, an updated version of the old Holy Roman Empire, the ...

King William O Stephens, Reaktion books, £15.99WE usually only remember the names of the “bad” Roman emperors. Like Nero, who ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

A sexually charged film, animated animal hijinks, an ode to the 80s come to an end, stories of collapse and paintings of ...

Indiana has completed the first perfect regular season in school history and secured a Big Ten championship game berth. The second-ranked Hoosiers blew out rival Purdue 56-3 on Friday night to ...