History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...
Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had ...
With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...
The Battle of Pydna in 168 BC was arguably the most consequential clash between ancient Rome and the Kingdom of Macedon.
Huge carved obelisks and stelas in northern Ethiopia were erected by the kings of the Aksum Empire, who ruled the Horn of Africa and Red Sea region for much of the first millennium A.D. The toppled ...