When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

This market town in Northumberland may seem modest but it is home to an abundance of historical monuments - offering a ...

Tassan was showing me a milliaire, or milestone, one of hundreds planted along the highways of Gaul at the time of the Roman Empire ... A small force of Roman soldiers lured the invaders toward ...

Not only did she command an army and navy, negotiate with foreign ... together the two appeared to lay out plans for an eastern Roman empire. Antony and Octavian's fragile peace came to an end ...

It’s not every day a Latin American president sounds more like a prophet than a politician. But then again, it’s not every ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

The American semiquincentennial begins now, marking the 250th anniversary of this country’s founding. Like the bicentennial ...

Nazi Germany overran France and forced the British army to evacuate at Dunkirk. Severely lacking in military equipment, Britain and her empire now stood alone against Adolf Hitler's forces.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, a court on the far eastern Russian island of Sakhalin found soldier Roman Ivanishin guilty of voluntary surrender, of attempting to voluntarily surrender ...

Roman rule in Britain was scuppered by three years of drought that led to rebellion and invasion, new tree-ring data suggests ...

The film “1-800-ON-HER-OWN” follows the fiercely independent artist as she tries a career first: writing a song with another artist. By Alissa Wilkinson This deliciously nasty reworking of the ...