The many Punic settlements in north Africa and Sicily help explain admixtures from those parts of the world. But the Greek ...

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

Nigeria is a democratic country but that does not mean it doesn't have traditional rulers who play a huge role in the country ...

Egyptian archaeologists uncovered the tomb of Pharaoh Userkaf's son in Saqqara, revealing a rare pink granite false door and ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

Almost immediately after dictator Bashar al-Assad fled, Syria came under attack. Israeli airstrikes have hit several hundred times since December.... Syria's dictator is gone. Its civil war is over.

King Charles III leaves Clarence House on March 28, 2025, in London, England. AP LONDON — King Charles III waved to well-wishers in central London on Friday as he headed for his country estate ...

On a Saturday evening earlier this year, Cal State L.A. professor Ericka Verba and her former bandmates took the stage at Santa Monica’s Church in Ocean Park to perform a tribute to the mid-20th ...

Jammeh was a 22-year dictator of Gambia, a country surrounded by Senegal except for a small Atlantic coastline, and was accused of ordering opponents tortured, jailed and killed. He lost a ...