Iran has built parallel military infrastructure across Syria and Iraq over decades, creating a shadow empire that security analysts fear will grow stronger as U.S. withdraws.

This crusading Christian military order – famous for its red cross on white mantle – has become emblematic of the turbulent and controversial crusading period of history and, in a strange afterlife, ...

Today in History for Oct. 13: In A.D. 54, Roman Emperor Claudius I died after being poisoned, apparently at the behest of his wife, Agrippina. In 1399, King Henry IV of England was crowned. He had ...

Sometimes a story sticks the landing by letting the heroes fall short. The result can be unsettling but unforgettable—worlds that stay broken, systems that keep grinding, or villains who simply get ...

In 1972, the abandoned Electric Bridge, called Ohio’s most pictured white elephant, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service of the US Department the ...

In a new study published in Gladius, a pair of researchers from the University of Salamanca and the University of Leon translated a quartzite funerary stele inscription written in Latin, which they ...

The well-preserved remains of a 2,000-year-old Roman bridge were recently discovered in Switzerland, officials said. Photo from Beth MacDonald, UnSplash The ruins of a Roman bridge were recently ...

Renovations on a soccer field outside of Vienna, Austria, uncovered a Roman-era mass grave that held the remains of roughly 150 males.