Nabataeans established a mysterious, ancient kingdom and had a reputation for great accomplishments with links to Greece and Rome.

Americans might be puzzled as to why an autocratic strongman holds such appeal with voters. But it’s a story India has seen a thousand times in our ancient politics.

The United States on Wednesday expanded sanctions against an individual and an entity who have helped Bosnian Serb ...

Cato the Elder was a senator during the Roman Republic. After a trip to Carthage, he became convinced that Carthage was a ...

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Since gaining independence in 1957, Ghana has strived to establish itself as a stable, democratic, and economically prosperous nation in West Africa .

Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome. One, from 2018, is called Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny, and the other, ...

As Americans go to the polls Tuesday, the U.S. presidential standard bearers describe a nation whose very soul hangs in the ...

Cato the Elder was a senator during the Roman Republic. After a trip to Carthage, he became convinced that Carthage was a ...

One of the most challenging aspects of resolving deeply rooted land disputes is deciding where to start counting from. In the cases of Israel-Palestine and Taiwan, the choice of historical starting ...

The history of Wang Mang, a Han dynasty minister and imperial cousin who later founded his own short-lived dynasty, resonates across time In the ancient Chinese calendar, the year corresponding to AD1 ...

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It ...