The title photo shows a stone monument at the Asuka-kyo Palace site in Asuka Village, Nara Prefecture, inscribed with a poem ...

Alexander III was never supposed to be Emperor. But after the untimely passing of his older brother, he became the reluctant Tsesarevich of Russia and dutifully turned his attention to matters of ...

The video traces how Emperor Majorian rebuilt Roman power in Gaul and Hispania, then prepared a fleet to retake North Africa ...

Sided Song," "Feast at Hong Gate"... There is an era when many of the idioms we use in daily life were born within just a few years. It is the era of the "Chu-Han Contention," which begins with the ...

At last year's San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Comics teased a major shift in their universe with the announcement of ‘One World Under Doom,’ a storyline poised ...

Sometimes the greatest discoveries are the ones you make when you stop digging. Amateur metal detectorist Oliver Riedl found ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of life in caves was not the work of laboratories or universities but of monks, aristocrats, merchants, and soldiers, all bound together by the ambitions of an ...