The historian Margaret MacMillan on the impact of the Trump-led American withdrawal from world leadership. Plus: David on the ...

Hadrian rebranded Judea to annihilate Jewish identity; modern pan-Arabists rebranded themselves to appropriate that identity.

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...

At first it looks like wallpaper. On second glance, you see the imprints of hands, stamped in red paint and climbing up the ...

The limestone sarcophagus, found in the Óbuda district, was sealed with metal clamps and molten lead, keeping it intact over ...

History is not a political choice. It is evidence, recorded by time itself. There was no Arab Palestine. There was Judea, ...

From Washington to Hollywood, American culture is now defined by score settling. But what do centuries of feuding have to ...

Archaeologists have completed the first comprehensive technological mapping of an intricate underground tunnel system beneath the ancient Etruscan city of Veii, revealing a sophisticated network of ...

Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.

This short shows the contents of the production gear bag used during filming. It highlights the practical tools and small ...

Nothing was too big in scale or too implausible in execution for what the Fuhrer dreamt up, whatever the scheme that caught his feverish fancy. For a vast empire, you need a vast transport solution.

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in modern-day Turkey, was an ornate memorial built for Carian ruler Mausolus and overseen by his sister-wife Artemesia II.