The fortress stood undisturbed for two millennia.

Iran has issued a sharp warning after the United States announced plans to deploy around 2,500 Marines to the Middle East. An ...

Here’s one story about how England began. By the late 4th century AD, Roman Britain was in serious decline. Its legions had been denuded by successive usurpers and pretenders, who kept taking the ...

The Roman military camp survived for over 2,000 years, and no one even knew that it existed all this time. Archaeologists studying Roman history in Switzerland were surprised that they had fortified a ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that a weapon known as the polybolos—or multi-thrower—was used during the Roman conquest ...

Before the Ides of March made him a martyr, Julius Caesar pulled off one of history's greatest military feats—outnumbered, ...

Is it any wonder ancient people thought lightning came from the gods? Even today a close lightning strike feels like a terrifying brush with the supernatural. Some ancient thinkers, however, suspected ...

Historically, unconditional surrender to the United States has been followed by prolonged US military occupation.

The phone call that probably saved my life was not a particularly welcome one at first. It was June 2023, and after a long ...

JoAnn Nigro, 84, a devout Roman Catholic, died peacefully on Saturday, March 14, 2026, surrounded by her loving family after a brief illness. Having heard the words, “Come, ye blessed…,” she was ...

The arguments echo those of earlier generations, the rhetoric carefully polished, the stakes described in moral terms. And yet the citizens whose sons would ultimately fight such wars often seem far ...

There is a peculiar advantage that distance grants to historians. Time removes the noise. It dissolves the passions that dominate contemporary debates and ...