The Jews were only 10-15% of Palestine during the Sasanian (Iranian) conquest of 224-651 A.D. The Muslim Conquest happened in 638 A.D. In 1517, The Turkish Ottoman Empire conquered the region. The ...

On his first international trip as head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo issued a stern warning from Turkey. The first ...

Augustus inherited a fractured Republic and found himself fighting wars on every horizon. In Spain, entrenched tribes ...

In this new study, a team analyzed the genomes of 70 ancient cats, dating back over the last 11,000 years (from about 9000 ...

Roman Reigns and Braun Strowman typically had a great rivalry over the years, but this was a low point. A Hell in a Cell match between them should've been superb, as Strowman was a great rival for ...

On the second day of his inaugural overseas trip, Pope Leo XIV visited the ancient site of the First Council of Nicaea, in ...

Pope Leo XIV marks a high point of his his first foreign trip to Turkey with a pilgrimage to the site where early Christian ...

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

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

Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.

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

A remarkable 2,000-year-old Roman stele featuring an intricately carved eagle clutching a wreath has been discovered in the ancient city of Manbij, Syria. The black basalt funerary monument, adorned ...