Ramses the Great is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

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However, fate decreed that this village would surpass all other cities, Greek or barbarian, not only in size but also in the ...

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Ranging from vast confederations on the Asian steppes to colonial projects that spanned the globe, these were the biggest ...

An eclectic mix of cultures, traditions, flavors and colors greets visitors to Istanbul, where Europe meets Asia, East meets ...

Smyrna was one of the most illustrious ancient and Hellenistic-era Greek cities, one of the main centers of Greek culture in ...

Even after the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century CE ... revisited this thinking and began reproducing manuscripts of Ptolemy’s text and maps. In 1406, his Greek text was translated into ...

As Europe languished in the Dark Ages, the Ageless Wisdom flourished in the Arab World. It was this movement that sowed the ...

And the exterior has a single large asymmetrical window framed in marble, a nod to the designer’s Greek heritage, surrounded on two sides with aluminum, a reference to the metal he has been ...

Archaeologists in Germany have discovered the 1,700-year-old burial of a "barbarian" who lived on the edge of the Roman Empire and was ... "barbarians" — a Greek word, originally meaning ...