Power in the ancient world never stayed calm for long. One empire surged, another strained, and rulers kept testing limits ...

A compelling creation myth was a must for every ancient civilisation, but Rome decided that one just wasn’t enough. In myth ...

After hunter-gatherers became farmers and farming gave rise to cities, cities gave rise to empires. They grew through military conquest, were built by slaves and were maintained with brutal violence, ...

Ancient DNA is spilling more secrets about the Avars, a fearsome people who built a mysterious empire that ruled much of Central and Eastern Europe for 250 years from the mid-sixth century. Primarily ...

From ritual parades to blood-soaked duels, explore a single day in the life (and death) of the most brutal entertainment in ...

How often do you think about the Roman Empire? If you’re in the Empire State, it’s probably a lot. That’s because so many of our cities are named after famous places of classical antiquity. When New ...

It has been argued in this column and elsewhere that we are now in a new age of imperial resurgence – what with the force projections abroad of Russia, Iran and Turkey proceeding in tandem with ...

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