Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

The Punic Wars from the Carthaginian perspective reveal a struggle for survival against an emerging Roman power. From the ...

Scipio Africanus’ triumph and tragedy was to have been, as Dexter Hoyos puts it, “the greatest general in Roman history,” renowned for never having lost in battle. Invincibility brought Scipio (ca.

Imagine being blindfolded and loaded in a car, then dropped nearly four hundred miles from your house in a random field in ...

The prayer marked the highlight of Pope Leo XIV's visit to Turkey and the main reason for his trip, the first of his ...

Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

Croatia has marked the anniversary of the fall of the eastern town of Vukovar, which was demolished by the Serb-led Yugoslav ...

Before he became the first U.S. president, George Washington helped ignite a global war. The French and Indian War saw empires battling for supremacy in the Americas, with Native nations caught in ...

What made this encounter truly extraordinary was Samoset's command of the English language. He had learned to speak English from fishermen who worked the waters off Monhegan Island in the Gulf of ...

Madison Carbora tallied a goal and an assist for seventh-seeded Passaic Tech in its 3-0 shutout against 10th-seeded Passaic in the first round of the North Jersey, Section 1, Group 4 Tournament in ...