Historian Adrian Goldsworthy reveals the brutal training, bureaucratic grind and uncertain rewards of life in the Roman ...

The New York Times' recent feature detailing Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast presents a vivid, harrowing ...

I really don't want to write what I'm about to write. As someone who regularly tries to get close to the active combat zone ...

Today in History for July 15: In 1099, the Muslim citizens of Jerusalem surrendered their city to the armies of the First Crusade. The Crusaders then proceeded, through misguided religious zeal, to ...

Given his youth and turmoil in the empire, Ptolemy probably ... in the 4th century under Roman Emperor Theodosius I, and for ...

A recent archaeological dig in western Germany revealed a Roman-era settlement with 750 artifacts, including a unique burial ...

With one man holding a phone to record the tree’s notorious fall and the other working a chainsaw, a pair of vandals forever ...

By the 1940s, there were over 4,000 Jews in the city. Several Jewish institutions had also been established, including three ...