Almost 1800 years after Rome’s founding, the people we call Byzantines still thought of themselves as part of the same ...

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 ...

The ancient Athenian writer Isocrates (436–338 BC) once commented: "Many cities judge those who excel in the athletic ...

Legend has it that when the Statue of Zeus was completed, the king of the gods announced his approval via a lightning bolt.