Stories of a remarkable birth, promises of salvation and the announcement of “good news” surrounded Rome’s first emperor.

He survived battlefield wounds and conquered an empire stretching from the Mediterranean to India. So when Alexander the ...

Older and much bigger than the Parthenon, this white marble monument in modern-day Turkey became the model for ancient Greek ...

Why would our Iron Age forebears smash craniums and sharpen bones? A forensic archaeological study suggests these were acts ...

Soviet investigators had obtained compelling evidence of Hitler’s death – but Moscow’s public statements told a different ...

Rome attributed its founding, religious institutions and early political organisation to seven kings. These mythical monarchs ...

Having pondered the traits that mark out those who reach the top of the tree and achieve greatness there, Mike Soutar – host ...

Mary, Queen of Scots, had been held captive in England for 18 and a half years before she was sentenced to death for plotting to kill her cousin, Elizabeth I. It appears that Elizabeth did show some ...

Lin Zexu was a Chinese official acting on the behalf of the Qing dynasty emperor. In 1839, he set about attempting to suppress an illegal trade, and started to demand that foreign merchants surrender ...

On 30 April 1945, as Soviet troops fought their way through Berlin, Adolf Hitler’s world had contracted to a bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery, the headquarters of his government. The dictator who ...