What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

No fewer than seven Queen Cleopatras ruled ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period, as a new book explains, writes David ...

The region's only certified pollen counter has retired, leaving it to the machines. The lack of reliable data remains a ...

A stunning study of Octavian’s victory monument in Nicopolis, Greece, reveals how massive ships gave him the edge in the 31 ...

"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens or good omens." ...

Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The players looked flustered. Stanford had come into the Pete Maravich Assembly Center and ambushed LSU women’s basketball on its own court. Seimone Augustus looked up at the ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Bob Starkey always thought that Seimone Augustus would be a coach one day. After she finished her storied playing career at LSU — leaving the program as a two-time National ...

Given the chance to interrogate one of history’s most famous figures, what would you ask? Speaking on the HistoryExtra ...

The Cumberland Theatre will continue its 37th season with the classic “Antony and Cleopatra” by William Shakespeare. The show runs March 27 through April 13 for 10 performances.

House of David' is a show that brilliantly brought a historical epoch to life for modern audiences but it wasn't the first show to do that.

BCE, ancient Rome witnessed one of the most infamous betrayals in history, the assassination of Julius Caesar. Known as the ...