A plaque erected to mark the opening of a new electronic library at the Attorney General’s Department was removed because the writing thereon was only in Sinhala and English, and Tamil had been left ...

The Galle Trilingual Inscription was erected during Zheng's second maritime expedition under the decree of Emperor Yongle (Zhu Di), making it an imperial stele. The stone was likely sourced from ...

The sixth emperor of the famed Mughal dynasty, he is considered by many detractors to be a tyrant who brutalized women, razed Hindu temples, forced religious conversions and waged wars against ...

Is Warhammer 40k’s Emperor of Mankind actually Jesus? In a sci-fi setting packed with utterly bizarre bits of deep lore, this might be one of the very weirdest – but there is, in fact, a tiny hint ...

Joshua Norton, a British-born South African immigrant, declared himself Emperor of the United States in 1859, gaining beloved eccentric status in San Francisco. Despite lacking legal power, he ...

China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, is buried in the Shaanxi Province. You might not know his name, but there’s a particular thing about all of this that you’ll probably, if not definitely ...