A historian looks at the plague that hit Ancient Athens and explains how a massive government spending plan backfired 2,500 ...

Archaeologists working in western Asia Minor say they have mapped a dense constellation of 483 ancient settlements that once ...

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Private militaries existed long before modern nation-states claimed a monopoly on war. From mercenary bands in ancient Sicily ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

These ancient precedents reveal an era dominated by collective vengeance rather than individual responsibility. When Judaism ...

A beast of a unit in the tabletop wargame, Achilles is also the lynchpin of the lore for the Next Wave faction of ...

A rare shipwreck, a gnome garden and 'Dragon's Teeth' defences are among the weird and wonderful historic structures that ...

Eighty-one years ago, while America was at war and millions of Jews were being slaughtered, the rabbi of the Washington ...

A study of a mosaic discovered on an English farm in 2020 shows that the Romans knew more than just Homer's version of the ...

Indeed, any one of their military triumphs against the Syrians could have been considered the “miracle of Chanukah,” but it ...