The Byzantine Greeks are a nation that is very often misunderstood for a number of historical and political reasons.

What would the modern world look like if Constantinople never fell in 1453? Imagine a Mediterranean that remained a Roman lake. No Ottoman conquest. No sack of 1204. A powerful Eastern Roman Empire ...

For a long time, we’ve been sold the idea that Genghis Khan, the 13th-century founder of the Mongol Empire, was so phenomenally prolific that one in 200 men alive today carries his exact Y chromosome.

Classicist Curtis Dozier’s The White Pedestal examines how the prestige of Greece and Rome can legitimize modern racism—and ...

A mysterious inscription sheds light on the issue of whether the Great Mosque of Homs in Syria was constructed over the ...

When we think of barbarians, we imagine enemies beyond the frontier. But what if some lived inside the Empire itself? For over 600 years, the Isaurians — a fierce mountain people in Asia Minor — ...

This ancient queen of Palmyra conquered Egypt, captured Roman provinces, and nearly transformed her realm into an empire ...

Nearly 20 years in the making, the sweeping sword and sandals epic drama puts black heroes at the center of their own legend. This is a sweeping, mythic, sword and sandals epic where Black heroes ...

A recently discovered Greek inscription at the base of a column inside the Great Mosque of Homs in Syria has rekindled a longstanding scholarly debate about the exact location of the Temple of the sun ...

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

As lifelong friends from opposite sides of the Atlantic, we’re united by our devotion to Arsenal: our favorite soccer club in ...

Why is the EU integration process easier for Moldova than it has ever been for any other country in Eastern Europe? If to say the integration is incomparably easier for Moldova because Romania is ...