A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

Over 2,300 years have passed since the death of Alexander the Great, but he remains one of the most famous historical figures ...

A recent paper analyses legal documents from the Roman empire that detail the prosecution of a tax evasion case on papyrus.

In this episode of General Knowledge, we talk about the Kingdom of Arles. Throughout Medieval Europe we can find a number of ...

The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived state that emerged during the Fourth Crusade after the sack of Constantinople ...

acquired a 22-foot-long medieval scroll portraying a map of the world, from the Atlantic to the mouth of the Ganges, as it existed during the Roman Empire. The map's origins were obscure ...

The trail’s 215 miles connect ancient road networks with modern hiking paths, tracing rivers, twisting up gorges and traversing the ruins of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine cities. Map ...

A large house or farm stood there from around 1350, according to lokalhistoriewiki.no (link in Norwegian). In 1602, Christian ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains:“Heaven has gone blind!” ...

Actor Peter Weller on the politics of "RoboCop," jazz and the importance of kindness and spirituality in hard times ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.