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 ...

Some glaring empires aren’t shown for whatever reason and I’d love more details on each but it’s just nice to see how most of the world’s most famous empires stack up against each other ...

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 ...

How Maps Are Saving the World. Maps. They’ve been around longer than photographs. They’ve defined empires,guided explorers, told stories, and captured the imagination of many a hopeful ...

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 ...

Here’s how he redrew the map of the world. He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before dying, aged just 32.

For those who are unaware of how the gaming studios connect to this aspect of the Egyptian Syrian empire: The Mamluks cavalry are among the many units featured in Xbox and World’s Edge Studio ...

Empires refines the millennia-spanning scope of Stainless Steel's Empire Earth down to its core. The studio's previous game featured a whopping 15 different time periods, from the cavemen to a sci ...