Stories of a remarkable birth, promises of salvation and the announcement of “good news” surrounded Rome’s first emperor.

Older and much bigger than the Parthenon, this white marble monument in modern-day Turkey became the model for ancient Greek ...

He survived battlefield wounds and conquered an empire stretching from the Mediterranean to India. So when Alexander the ...

Soviet investigators had obtained compelling evidence of Hitler’s death – but Moscow’s public statements told a different ...

Why would our Iron Age forebears smash craniums and sharpen bones? A forensic archaeological study suggests these were acts ...

Rome attributed its founding, religious institutions and early political organisation to seven kings. These mythical monarchs ...

Having pondered the traits that mark out those who reach the top of the tree and achieve greatness there, Mike Soutar – host ...

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Mary, Queen of Scots, had been held captive in England for 18 and a half years before she was sentenced to death for plotting to kill her cousin, Elizabeth I. It appears that Elizabeth did show some ...

It is impossible today to imagine a world without what are known as Hindu-Arabic numerals. These nine symbols or digits (1 to 9) and zero (0) – crucially, together with the system of arranging them in ...

We’ve put a man on the Moon, come up with the theory of general relativity, split the atom – the list of breakthroughs in making the impossible possible goes on and on. Humanity can achieve pretty ...