If you’re not well-versed in South American geography, you could easily look at a map of the ... The Xiongnu Empire formed in Mongolia in the late 3rd century BC and lasted for roughly 300 years.

The Byzantine Empire maintained an intriguing relationship with ancient China, thus sending ambassadors there.

A Byzantine gold coin that was recently discovered in the mountains of southern Norway has historians perplexed over how it ...

Jan. 6 (UPI) --At least 10 buildings and multiple artifacts from the 5th or 6th century have been uncovered in southern Israel in what authorities say is an ancient Byzantine monastery thousands ...

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago. The ...

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Archaeologists have uncovered a fascinating relic of ancient administrative practices during excavations at Abel Beth Maacah, ...

But, despite this, there are still many in academia who claim that changes to the climate and the outbreak of plague were catastrophic for the eastern Roman Empire ... used to map the general ...

which was first claimed by the Dorians (ancient Greeks) in the 9th century B.C., is home to ruins from the Hellenistic (Greek empire built by Alexander the Great), Roman and Byzantine (eastern ...

The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between ... held vast wealth and control in the ancient world. But while many people wanted ...

Constantinople was the capital of the ancient Byzantine empire. The empire held sway over much of Italy, Greece and Turkey for more than 1,000 years, the only one in history to have lasted a ...