Learn how a Roman polybolos unleashed rapid-fire projectiles during the siege of Pompeii.

In 89 BCE, when the residents of Pompeii rebelled against Rome, the Empire pulled no punches in its attempts to quell the ...

At Isca Augusta, a major Roman fortress in Britain, soldiers underwent rigorous training to prepare for battle. From drills and discipline to weapons practice, this site offers insight into how the ...

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 Avars rose as a dominant ethnic group in Europe, where their conflicts with the Byzantine Empire reshaped the landscape of the Balkans.

Last week, Bayern Munich emulated Julius Caesar’s Veni, Vidi, Vici in a thrilling conquest of Bergamo. Atalanta were humbled by a 6-1 defeat and it seemed as though the Rubicon were crossed. There was ...

Christian communities are opposing Lebanon’s involvement in the conflict while weighing whether Hezbollah’s weakening could ...

Slavic migration into Greece reshaped the peninsula, driving demographic change and creating a multi-ethnic Byzantium.

The British government says it will take "further steps" to ensure Roman Abramovich releases the 2.5 billion pounds he ...

Pawtucket Rangers Militia reenactors assemble in an Evacuation Day ceremony marking the 1776 departure of British troops from ...

Archaeologists in Bearsden discovered the ruins of a 1,900-year-old fortlet alongside the Roman Empire's famous Antonine Wall ...

In AD 9, a young Roman hostage from the Germanic Cherusci tribe was leading an auxiliary military group deep into the Teutoburg Forest. With him were the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth ...