The 8,000-year-old tradition took root in France around the sixth century B.C. when the southern Gauls were settled by the Greeks, later to be encapsulated in the Roman Empire. Now, archaeologists in ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys 150 years of Black artists turning to ancient Egypt.

After the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain around AD 410, many towns declined, industries ceased, and the Roman army left England's shores.

Here is an Ancient Greece map, featuring how the country was like in the ancient times, during the peak centuries of its history. In this map of Ancient Greece, you can spot the various regions of the ...

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In 386 BCE Rome was sacked by itinerant Gallic tribes, and was still a regional power of limited relevance, whereas in 146 BCE it had built a powerful Mediterranean empire, able to destroy once-mighty ...

When “desperate families sold their children into slavery for dog meat,” it was more a case of “the dogs are eating the ...

For over 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth, with an empire stretching across half a dozen modern-day countries. How much do you know about this iconic ...

Imperialism and India, spies and seafarers, paganism and the polis: the first 12 of 25 historians choose their favourite new ...

A new entry on the city's free museum list this year is the Forma Urbis Museum, in the archaeological park on the Caelian hill, which houses the remaining fragments of the Forma Urbis Romae, the giant ...

This is the Tartarian Empire, a civilization supposedly suppressed and erased from history by world governments. This article will not try to examine whether Tartaria existed. Rather, we will explore ...