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 First Emperor unified China for the first time, standardizing writing, currency, and weights and measures. The man who ...

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

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

I believe that it is part of a previously unidentified major arterial Roman road connecting modern Pembrokeshire with Ceredigion to the north.

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 ...

Twenty-five years ago, Ridley Scott's movie “Gladiator” was a cinematic blockbuster, winning numerous Oscars for its depiction of ancient Rome under a power-hungry, depraved emperor. To keep his ...