You've no doubt heard the saying, "The sun never sets on the British Empire." This was true, until the 1920s when colonialism ...

R esearchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

RG: Empires: Dawn of the Modern World is an epic historical game of empire building and conquest. This is what gamers told us they wanted--the ability to conduct sieges and conquests on huge maps ...

The map below details all the most powerful empires from history and shows the area each empire covered, the amount of people they had under their rule, the year they reached their political ...

Myth of Empires will be officially relaunched on February 21st. Developer Angela Game and Imperium Interactive Entertainment announced the multiplayer strategic sandbox' launch date, along with a ...

Data Points is a new series where we explore the world of data visualization, information graphics, and cartography. Maps. They’ve been around longer than photographs. They’ve defined empires ...

Aiyaz Husain, a historian with the Policy Studies Division of the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State and author of the recently published “Mapping the End of Empire: American and ...

In fact, you may be reading this in a country that was once part of a now-vanished international superpower. Here are maps that reveal the rise and fall of the world’s most ambitious empires.

Dongzhou is a new map released alongside Myth of Empires V1.0. It features a day/night cycle and a wealth of unique landforms including volcanoes, islands, sandy shores, ice floes, blooming ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.

As a refinement of the Age of Empires legacy, Empires offers enough that's new to even appeal to those who aren't card-carrying RTS fans.