How often do you think about the Roman Empire? For a team of international researchers who went all in and mapped the ancient Roman road system, the answer — truly — is every day. And now, anyone can ...

The ancient Greek ideal of World Unity is manifested in the conquests of Alexander the Great aiming to unite the world ...

Throughout humanity's history, there have been lasting empires that stood for millennia, ruling vast areas of land and people ...

It has been argued in this column and elsewhere that we are now in a new age of imperial resurgence – what with the force projections abroad of Russia, Iran and Turkey proceeding in tandem with ...

History books are filled with powerful kingdoms that ruled for centuries, building massive cities and changing the world around them. But some of these empires didn’t fade slowly or get conquered in ...

How often do you think about the Roman Empire? If you’re in the Empire State, it’s probably a lot. That’s because so many of our cities are named after famous places of classical antiquity. When New ...

After hunter-gatherers became farmers and farming gave rise to cities, cities gave rise to empires. They grew through military conquest, were built by slaves and were maintained with brutal violence, ...

Ancient DNA is spilling more secrets about the Avars, a fearsome people who built a mysterious empire that ruled much of Central and Eastern Europe for 250 years from the mid-sixth century. Primarily ...

Sillysoft Games ( www.sillysoft.net) has released their new strategy game Ancient Empires Lux. It's available now to download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The game lets players take control of the ...

I imagine that it is a challenge to cram a respectable strategy game onto the cell phone. Macrospace's Ancient Empires is a risky title, but in the end it comes off as a success. Playing as a medieval ...