Roman rule in Britain was scuppered by three years of drought that led to rebellion and invasion from Ireland, new tree-ring data suggests. In 367 AD, tribes including the Picts (from modern-day ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman ...

Once believed to be an ancient military outpost, an archaeological site in North Macedonia may actually be the remains of ...

How does the term 'Renaissance' distort the narrative of African liberation? Gillian Schutte sounds the call for ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

Moscow is accused by pro-Western politicians of interfering in an EU referendum and presidential ballot in Moldova, while in ...

With its four towers, the massive Alcázar of Toledo commands attention from across the city. These towers were the focal ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures ... Rome was a multiethnic, multilinguistic empire, happy to adopt wholesale an entire foreign religious pantheon.

As it is understood, it was heavily influenced by the Turkish language following the 11th-century Seljuk conquest of the region and the gradual ... During the Eastern Roman era, known today as the ...