During the next century, Christians perished in China completely. With the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, China once again ...

During the late third century, the Roman Emperor Diocletian ... The Eastern Empire adopted Greek as its official language and continued to thrive, while the Western Empire spiraled deeper into ruin.

This thrilling, wide-ranging exhibition maps the complex connections among European and Asian civilizations from A.D. 500 to ...

The Cyrillic alphabet was invented there in the 9th century ... Roman Empire in the Balkan Peninsula. More amazing is the ...

Hellenization under Alexander the Great saw many people assimilated into Greek culture, including the Hellenistic Jews.

The legendary Roman empire took in every country around the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called “Mare Nostrum”—”Our Sea.”) It was so powerful that it managed to last for 500 years in the West ...

Because “Roman roads are characteristically straight,” archaeologists thought they knew where the London section of road ...

A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, a sci-fi epic more than four decades in the making, sees a futuristic, reimagined version ...

A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

Archaeologists began excavating a site in Villeneuve-sur-Lot in 2017 ahead of home construction. They expected to find something because of the area’s proximity to Excisum, a prosperous ancient Roman ...

BUENOS AIRES — Three people were charged in connection with the death of Liam Payne, a former member of musical group One ...