The Byzantine Empire faced numerous challenges, forcing many Greeks to employ genius tactics to defend the Empire.

The outlook was no better on the international stage. No sooner had Maria Theresa assumed the throne than Frederick the Great ...

The structure consists of three concentric walls up to five meters high and 25 towers. Inside, the tomb of a possible Roman legionary has been discovered ...

This Shabbat, Parashat Beshallach, is called שַׁבַּת שִׁירָה, Shabbat Shirah, the Shabbat of the Song at the Red Sea.

Learn what this Roman emperor's secret garden meant to Roman society and why the discovery speaks to ancient Roman life.

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

When Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US President, he did not put his left hand on either of the two Bibles held by his ...

In several graves, ancient curse tablets known as defixio have been found, calling upon gods to punish various wrongdoers, ...

Deliverance 2 is a game obsessed with medieval history—specifically the history of Bohemia, a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire that's now part of modern Czechia. It's an RPG that is fascinated by the ...

Establishing a monopoly on caravan traffic, the Nabataean capital managed to protect itself from enemies while remaining ... following the breakup of the Roman Empire, Petra became a provincial ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

The solution they came up with is famously stated in the Declaration of Independence: “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” This revolutionary truth, combining human reason and divine revelation, ...