1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of America its independence. The so-called "Second Spanish Period" lures ...

Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

The roar of the arena crowd, the bustle of the Roman forum, the grand temples, the Roman army in red with glistening shields ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Bengalurus glossy startup exterior hides a tired truth—burnout is rampant. In a widely shared post, founder Karan Raghani humorously exposed the city's daily struggles, from Marathahalli traffic and ...

A year-by-year "what if" filling in a century-long gap of Academy Awards recognition for noteworthy stunt artistry and design in Hollywood movies.

Concrete is all around us, and we haven’t quite wrapped our heads around it. Understanding its history more clearly, the Skyscraper Museum’s new exhibition in Manhattan implies, just might help us ...

At its height in 117 AD, the Roman Empire covered 40 modern nations and 5 million square km. Sea crossings aside, you could walk from northern Britain to the Persian Gulf and have never left the ...

Mr. Bannon, influenced by Edward Gibbon’s 18th-century opus, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” came to a different conclusion.

This was not a fascist gesture, they insisted, but a “Roman salute”. Several posted scenes from the 2005-07 TV series Rome, which depicts Roman salutes, as evidence in support of their claim.

A silver amulet found next to a skeleton in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of being Christian in Roman times.

Ancient Rome wasn't always a mighty Empire, first it was a Republic ruled by a Senate. Learn how the Republic operated and different roles in the Roman… ...