Explore the greatest and most influential empires in world history, spanning over 45 centuries of civilization. In this first ...

Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning himself with the brutal Hannibal – not Hannibal’s Roman enemy, ...

An inconspicuous piece of curved metal discovered in the Czech Republic by an amateur metal detectorist has proven a ...

The Trojan War was celebrated by legendary authors like Homer, who told the tale of the large wooden horse that tricked the soldiers of Troy. In the stories, Paris, the son of a Trojan King, ran away ...

The Ancient Horsemen Who Created the Modern World New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 years ago. By Bojan Pancevski ...

Named Aeneas (after the mythical hero of Rome’s foundation epic), the system is a generative neural network designed to ...

At Uxellodunum, Gaul, in approximately 51 BC, Julius Caesar fielded what was surely one of the most formidable siege towers the ancient world ever saw.

Ancient Hindu temples are part of the area, the dispute over which has sparked a war between Thailand and Cambodia. The ...

He focuses on ancient military history, especially of the Roman army. Wilson is an assistant professor at the US Naval War College. He is an expert in 18th-century naval warfare history.

Hitler spent over 800 days, more than two years, inside the Wolf’s Lair, his secret military headquarters hidden deep within ...