Following the casting announcement of Toby Wallace (The Society, Babyteeth), Netflix ‘s upcoming Assassin’s Creed series has ...

House of Ashur captures the gritty realism, intense combat, and provocative elements that made the original series great.

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In Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse, Luke Kemp smashes the Overton window out of its frame, then ...

From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost ...

A new book, co-edited by Barbara Faedda, focuses on this strategic Mediterranean port city.

In four episodes, the BBC’s Civilisations series tells the story of the fall of the Romans, Aztecs, Egypt’s Ptolemies and ...

Curiosity about the past isn’t just academic. It’s a way of understanding who we are and how we became this version of ...

A compelling creation myth was a must for every ancient civilisation, but Rome decided that one just wasn’t enough. In myth ...

Today, America is one of the richest and most inventive countries in the world. Will our “golden age” continue?

With a ceasefire in effect in Gaza, a restoration team is painstakingly retrieving historical manuscripts, rare volumes, and archival documents from beneath the rubble of a destroyed mosque.

The printing press helped build libraries that were impossibly large by ancient standards. That created its own new ...