Nabataeans established a mysterious, ancient kingdom and had a reputation for great accomplishments with links to Greece and Rome.

Alexander the Great is one of the legendary conquerors of ancient history who sparked the imagination of generations of ...

Explore Antiochus III's campaigns, from battling revolts in Media and Persia to his epic conquests during the Fourth Syrian ...

Nevertheless, these unprepossessing ruins, easily missed as you drive up the Red Sea coast, were the landing point for generations of Indian merchants travelling to the Roman Empire and were once ...

Pompeii’s unique preservation of the tragic tableaux of its citizens’ final moments has provided archaeologists with a way to ...

Armed with new tools, scholars are finally able to read papyrus scrolls long deemed too fragile to open. The breakthrough could literally change history.

Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii ...

After playing the new city-builder game Citadelum for just over four hours, I can definitively say that it’s right for a specific kind of person: those who are obsessed with the Roman Empire.

The British cannot help themselves.  They are a meddling island people who conquered huge swathes of the earth in a fictional ...

A map showing all the countries that Britain has invaded over the years reveals there are only 22 countries that have not been touched by the UK's military might. Of the 193 countries in the ...

Christianity appeared in Persia in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, during the Parthian Empire. It is not known exactly how ...