Prior to his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the French ruler gave the saber to one of his most trusted generals, ...

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One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

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This same bronze sword, photographed at Istanbul Airport Museum, was found near Hattusa ... they folded them into the Hittite Empire and pantheon. Holy statues from temples, thought to embody ...

The first was said to have been commissioned by Constantine, the Roman emperor who converted to Christianity and moved the Roman Empire’s center ... it actually means “Holy Wisdom” in ...

My partner Terry has been panicking since we left Dublin Airport - he doesn't want to be underdressed for our weekend, but he ...

Surveying the melancholy ruins “while the bare-footed fryars were singing Vespers,” he was then and there inspired to write his monumental history, The Declineand Fall of the Roman Empire.

Archeologists have long struggled to figure out what Roman dodecahedrons are or what purpose they were originally used for.

Archaeologists working near Măgura Călanului hill in Romania have discovered a remarkably rare cache of iron tools dating ...

His trademark humility was genuine, and did much to strip away perceptions of an aloof “Holy Roman Empire”. He immediately discarded the showy red velvet slippers and ornate vestments ...