How did the Holy Roman Empire come into being? This video traces its origins from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

Pope Leo XIV marks a significant moment on his first foreign trip to Turkey with a pilgrimage to Iznik, the site of the ...

Leo’s visit includes meetings with Turkey’s President and a focus on supporting Turkey’s small Catholic community.

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

Step back into the world of Ancient Rome, mapped out through Google Earth with unit placements that bring history to life.

Researchers studied the materials that have made the 2,000-year-old Temple of Venus so durable, revealing Roman builders' ...

In four episodes, the BBC’s Civilisations series tells the story of the fall of the Romans, Aztecs, Egypt’s Ptolemies and ...

Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.

Was the 1521 surrender of the great Indigenous empire to the Spanish crown a triumphant conquest, an existential tragedy—or even a genocide? Generations of Mexican schoolchildren were taught the story ...

A compelling creation myth was a must for every ancient civilisation, but Rome decided that one just wasn’t enough. In myth ...