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 ...

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

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

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.

The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...

For Romans, Augustus was the saviour who ended civil war; Tacitus reveals how power and propaganda traded liberty for the Pax ...

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

The past eight decades have been the longest period without a war between great powers since the Roman Empire. This anomalous era of extended peace came after two catastrophic wars, each of which was ...

Dutch historian, leadership scholar and executive coach, examines how Julius Caesar’s downfall reveals a timeless truth about power: even the most capable leaders ...

It took Edward Gibbon 12 years from conception to publication to produce the first volume of The History of the Decline And ...

Have you ever wondered what it felt like to walk through the bustling markets of ancient Rome or stand beneath the towering pyramids of Egypt? These eight carefully selected books offer something ...