Flavius Josephus was a Jewish aristocrat who was initially a general in the Jewish rebellion of 66-71 CE, but soon ...

These are the 25 countries which are home to the most significant cultural, historical and natural sites, according to UNESCO.

The list also reflected a shift in Western attitudes toward the world ... and while travel was not yet as safe as it would become under the Roman Empire, the network of Greek culture extended ...

Paris is a city deeply entrenched in our collective world culture. Some feel it’s a city of romance. Others look at its ...

Along with Mallorca and Menorca, as well as over 40 islets, Ibiza and Formentera form part of the Balearic Islands, situated in the western Mediterranean Sea ... coinage until well into the days of ...

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome ...

They came from the tribes that raided and eventually toppled the mighty Roman empire. The Western Roman Empire fell in 478 following centuries of civil wars, increased corruption and barbarian ...

In the worst, it faces the fall of the Roman Empire. As it was for Rome, so too will it be for America — unless, they suggest, we learn the lessons of history. Whether they focus on the fall of ...

The Roman Empire has never ceased to fascinate the world, even after the fall of its western half 1½ millennia ago. And with ...

Battle at the dawn of urban Vienna Historical records show that in the late 1st century, during the reign of the emperor Domitian, costly battles took place on the Roman Empire’s northern Danube ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the ...