Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

What we think of as the Roman Empire lasted from 27 BCE to 476 AD. But the end of the Roman Empire is way more complicated ...

Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.

DeepSeek, the new chatbot that seemingly dethroned ChatGPT, is all over the news. Here's everything that happened in the last ...

The rise and fall of empires have shaped history, with most empires lasting between 200 to 300 years of dominance, or the average of 250... for the record, the American ...

A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out unafraid to risk official censure or even ...

SUMMARY Slavery was integral to Roman society, and slaves outnumbered citizens in Rome. There were many routes to slavery, including as prisoners of war, selling oneself into slavery, or being born a ...

A gesture associated with the Nazis has a surprising history. But in Germany, there was little doubt about its meaning.

Starting out as a Roman statesman and military leader, Augustus used his cunning and political leverage to become the first … ...

The big question with closing ECM and M&A advisory in Europe and the Americas is what synergies could be lost for the rest of ...

How should we approach the study of history? An unfortunate trend has been to implement “history by theory” in which ...

The expansion of the Roman empire to Greece 2,100 years ago coincided with a rise in lead pollution as a by-product of an increased demand for metals, according to some of the earliest traces of of ...