Napoleon: Napoleon Bonaparte was a French general who, after rising to power during the French Revolution, carried out a ...

In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.

From 19th century British navy to US destroyers in the Caribbean, diplomacy at seas has been accompanied by military might.

While the mayors of the cities did sign a peace treaty in 1985, it was a symbolic gesture. In reality, the wars between the two ancient civilizations ended more than 2,000 years prior when Rome ...

Joseph A. McCullough has not been resting on his laurels and another Osprey Games wargame with a bit of a twist is on the way ...

Greek and Turkish military aircraft often meet over the Aegean Sea. Most islands there are Greek and some of them are in ...

Among the golden pages of the history of Ancient Greece there are pages blemished with the acts of traitors, men who betrayed ...

The loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not ...

Founded in the 4th century, Sümela is a gravity-defying marvel, hanging nearly 1,000 feet over a wooded valley in Turkey, that today attracts thousands of religious pilgrims.

Ancient Greek writers provide descriptions of a strange island where the inhabitants lived nude, deeply loved women and hated ...

The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to ...

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed one of the New Kingdom's largest fortresses in North Sinai's Sheikh Zayed, spanning ...