Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age.

From the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from the Rhine and Danube to the Sahara, there were a million square miles of ...

Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate ...

Historian Victor Davis Hanson warns that the same forces that collapsed Greece and Rome – debt, tribalism, decadence and declining virtue – are again pushing the modern West toward a new Dark Age.

Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture ...

Read on to see the world's oldest man-made structures that are still in use, from Roman amphitheatres to Chinese temples...

The "Five Good Emperors" of the Roman Empire (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius) ruled from 96 to 180 CE, an era often regarded as Rome's golden age. This period is ...

A 2,000-year-old palace in the Republic of Georgia and a 1,500-year-old church in Iraq suggest Zoroastrians coexisted with people of other religions.

Construction started back in AD 122 when the Emperor Hadrian visited the North of England to identify potential sites. At 73 ...

A history professor has discovered hidden markings on an ancient Roman cup, revealing secrets of the empire’s glassware culture from around the 4th to 6th centuries AD. Professor Hallie Meredith from ...

Arts, entertainment, film, festivals and more events happening this week in the greater Capital Region from Thursday, Dec. 25 ...

Discover fascinating ancient myths and legends – from lost cities to warrior women – that archaeologists and scientists have ...