The Ottoman Empire entered the First World War alongside Germany and Austria-Hungary, hoping to regain strength and prestige. Instead, outdated weapons, poor leadership, and overwhelming enemies led ...
When divers plunged into the waters off Sicily’s Egadi Islands last summer, they didn’t just find rare artifacts from antiquity. They found the wreckage of an empire’s turning point. Resting on the ...
New York: Basic Hachette, 2024. Pp. xx, 508+. Illus., maps, table, notes, index. $22.99 paper. ISBN: 1541605152 The Bad Boys of the Old Testament. Most of us are familiar with the later Assyrians as ...
Now, a shattered skull from Serbia tells the chilling story of one such combatant: a brown bear who lived, suffered, and died in the amphitheater of Viminacium about 1,700 years ago.
Scientists have found the "missing piece" of the puzzle behind the devastating disease that reshaped the Byzantine Empire.