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Historian Bettany Hughes reveals what growing up in the ancient Roman Empire was really like – from knucklebones and wooden ...

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When Old Norse explorers reached North America, they made history. But their brief, violent encounter with its indigenous ...

Behind the myth of the Minotaur lies the ancient Minoan civilisation – a culture steeped in ritual, rich in symbolism, and ...

A landmark US law passed more than 50 years ago helped build the world’s most successful national women’s football team.

After almost half a millennia of the Roman republic came five centuries of empire – and some of the most famous and colourful rulers in history. Nige Tassell traces a path through the dynastic ...

From the US assassination of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani to the ongoing case of the jailed mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Iran has scarcely been out of the headlines in recent months. But how ...

Josef Stalin was the longest-serving leader of the world’s first socialist state, the Soviet Union, one of the principal architects of the postwar order and among the most ruthless tyrants to have ...