The extent of the violence used by the security forces against demonstrators in Iran has deeply shocked the population. Triggered by an economic crisis, mass protests broke out across the country at ...

The Aztec empire succumbed to its own imperial arrogance, alienating neighbours who ultimately helped bring about its ...

When in 955 ad a 20,000-strong force of Magyar raiders besieged the city of Augsburg, Saxon King Otto I gathered an army to ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than originally believed. Interamna Lirenas was a thriving town well ...