The "Five Good Emperors" of the Roman Empire (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius) ruled from 96 to ...

The year 476 AD is often described as the moment the Roman Empire fell. But what actually happened? Romulus Augustus was deposed by Odoacer, a Germanic general serving within the Roman system. The ...

Archaeologists in Cologne, Germany have made a jaw-dropping discovery beneath the city’s historic center: a 2,000-year-old Roman altar and staircase hidden beneath urban streets, in a place where it ...

After a year with 2 fatal line-of-duty incidents in York County, Officer Ed Curtis understands what cops go through on the ...

Archaeologists in Cologne, Germany, have uncovered an astonishing 2,000-year-old staircase that once connected a Roman governor’s palace to the Rhine. This rare find, along with a private altar, ...

HISTORY repeated in the fall of empire after empire — and looks set to do so with America’s global dominance. And the ...

On The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol. I, by Conrad Black.

As the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler laid out plans for structures that would serve as monuments to himself. His ...

In modern-day Jordan, a 1500-year old mass grave sheds light on the lives of people affected by the Plague of Justinian.

The same travertine quarries near Rome that built St. Peter’s Basilica and the Colosseum are still being dug out today, ...

“Scots-Irish,” a popular label among American conservatives today, has long been a kind of shorthand for mythic ideas about what makes someone a “real American.” ...