Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

Around 1,800 BC, people along the Black Sea began using iron ore to create sturdy wrought iron weapons. The even-stronger cast iron was first made in China, beginning around 500 BC.

I'm bringing a lighter so I can say I invented fire. "Internet booking for international hotels: not that long ago, you had to write airmail letters and include paid international postage and wait for ...

Scientists have found evidence of the most powerful storm in history, which hit Earth in 14,300 years ago. It would cause mayhem in today's technology-dependent world.

From 500 BCE on, the Roman Empire extended its territory across parts of Europe and North Africa until its frontier totaled some 7,500 kilometres by the 2nd century. The Romanian segment, the Dacian ...

The Roman Empire existed for approximately 500 years, from approximately 27 BC to approximately 476 AD, and included most of the territory surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, other parts of Europe ...

By the Bronze Age (2000 BC to 500 BC), about 50 per cent of Brits had an 'intermediate' skin colour, while 25 per cent were light-skinned and 25 per cent were dark-skinned.

Roman numerals, a system developed around 500 BC, use letters to represent numbers. The Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles will take the field for Super Bowl LIX on Sunday.

Published on January 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study analyzed three Arctic ice core records to measure lead pollution levels from 500 BC to 600 AD. This timeframe ...

The cores provide a timeline of atmospheric lead concentrations from 500 BC to 600 AD. Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers describe how the ice cores revealed a ...

The Western Roman Empire lasted from 27 BC to around 476 AD, but the Byzantine Empire in the East lasted from 330 AD to 1453 AD, when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire. The Roman Empire was ...