With the New Year on the horizon, it is time to put pen to paper and think about what we really want in 2026. Surveys dress it up as “relationships” and “financial security,” but we all know what that ...

These landmarks all deliver genuine awe in real life — no matter how many times you’ve seen them on social media ...

Welcome to part three of this history of the world through objects, which we pick up between 1400 and 1500. As always, we're looking at 'things', that tell us about how societies organised themselves, ...

The life of the tenth Ottoman sultan, Suleyman, known in Europe as the Magnificent and in Turkey as the Lawgiver, ...

Contrary to popular belief, illuminated manuscripts were not exclusively made in Europe—one of the most impressive is from ...

The Holy Roman Empire, despite the name, was German, but why was it called Roman if it had nothing to do with the Romans? (Image: Imperial crown of the Holy Roman Empire) Credit:Flickr / mitko_denev ...

COMMENTARY: The 16th-century ecumenical council shows us how the Church can come together and bring about authentic reform.

A newly discovered monumental arch in Serbia reveals a family’s rise to power in the late second century a.d. Archaeologists unearthed foundations (in box, above right) of a late second- or early ...

The Roman Empire conjures up images of military power, gladiatorial contests, and feats of engineering, but to the men who ruled, life was complicated and fraught with risk. Julius Caesar, whose power ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In the third century CE, a new dynasty known as the Sasanians came to power in ancient Iran. Within a few years, the first Sasanian ...

A new high resolution digital dataset and map—named Itiner-e—of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings increase ...