Who would inherit Charlemagne’s vast imperial lands? Trying to decide led to quarreling and warfare—and the emergence of ...

The First Five Hundred Years,” Paula Fredriksen explores how a localized sect became a universal Roman church.

After Moscow hit Ukraine with a nuclear-capable missile — and threatened atomic war with the West — Ukraine's ex-president is ...

The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, known as DEVCOM, is a team of world-class scientists, engineers, analysts, technicians and support staff who are fully focused on empowering ...

"Gladiator II" rips the heart out of the original "Gladiator" movie, which is a shame because the original is a masterpiece.

Although both movies capture the image of tyranny described by hostile intellectuals, only the new one holds another clue ...

New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.

Numidia was once a vast kingdom, stretching from the east of modern-day Morocco into Algeria, Tunisia and the west of Libya.

As the Roman Empire expanded, the military was stationed farther and farther away from military production houses, ...

For Roman soldiers stationed on the frontier of the Empire, repairing armor meant recycling, the more precious metals became.

Gladiator II, Ridley Scott’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, is neither a good movie nor a bad movie—instead, it is ...

Set in the Ancient Roman Empire just like its predecessor ... taken to Rome as slaves by the famed and seemingly invincible ...