Assassin's Creed franchise will be taken to back to Ancient Rome, but instead it would be featured in the in development, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

Scientific dating methods occasionally rewrite history, and this is certainly the case at the UK Chedworth Roman villa. Using precise radiocarbon dating techniques, scientists have been able to verify ...

The history of the Roman Empire is filled with tales of grandeur, conquests, and the rise and fall of mighty rulers. From a small city-state, it rose in power, became a kingdom, a republic, and ...

Roman soldiers using a battering ram. Illustration published 1838. Original edition is from my own archives. Copyright has expired and is in Public Domain. Royalty ...