The Byzantine Empire was one of the first societies to offer its citizens some form of what we now call universal healthcare.

The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...

5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from ...

Forget the explore page, the ancient Greeks were the original hybrid athletes ...

A tight-knit Las Vegas family that turned a small southwest valley coffee bar into a neighborhood staple is now taking over ...

Jerusalem is on high alert for a variety of imminent threat scenarios, the defense minister stressed, in a clear reference to ...

Before the Roman Empire began building massive structures, a vast stone water basin was built in nearby city of Gabii ...

Arms technology is one of the driving forces behind warfare. While there was a period where most of humanity was ...

The story is told of how the Armenian king Trdat (also known as Tiridates III) was physically transformed into a wild boar as ...

Iran has released a Greek tanker that was seized two years ago in a series of tit-for-tat moves involving the US. Vessel monitoring company TankerTrackers stated late on Monday that the Stamatis ...

The history of ancient Greece teaches us that the lasting formula for maintaining and sustaining global power over time is through mutually beneficial alliances, not brute strength and coercion.

Police in Ptolemaida uncovered 26 spearheads from the Hellenistic period (323–30 BC) during a search of a 44-year-old foreign ...