Yet this image couldn’t be further from the truth. The French emperor was probably closer to five feet six or […] ...

Archaeologists uncovered the 2,000-year-old Flaccus tomb at Heerlen's Raadhuisplein during a town-square excavation.

At the height of its power, the Roman Empire extended as far away as Britain. Rome didn’t view the region as remote or ...

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Pausanias finds Thermopylae preserved as a monument and a message, even as Sparta itself has become a Roman tourist stop and a fading memory. This chapter follows how Herodotus tied the 300 to the ...

The Japanese drive on the left side because in the 19th century, they hired British engineers to build their railway systems.