Ancient Greece had a rich panoply of deities and making sense of the web of family trees can be challenging. Matt Doherty ...

The star of Loki and The Night Manager hosts a retelling of the destruction of Pompeii – one that manages to make one of the ...

The Odyssey is one of the most celebrated stories ever told, recounting the tale Greek hero Odysseus’s journey home from the Trojan War. It should have taken him weeks – and it would have done, had he ...

He has sailed to Troy with the coalition of Greek rulers determined to recover Helen, wife of Menelaus, after she was taken by the Trojan prince Paris. He has fought in a war that lasted ten years.

“One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female.” The woman, Anna Stone, had been found naked, filthy and chained with several ...

Expect ambition, courage and ruthlessness, as Mike explores what the stories of Elizabeth I, Winston Churchill and six other leaders can teach us today, in the 21st century. This page contains ...

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While our ancestors may have spent their lifetimes puzzling over these questions, we now have the world of technology at our ...

What is the IRA and what has it fought for? The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is the name that has been used by a number of paramilitary groups in Ireland and Northern Ireland, all with the aim of ...

Duke William of Normandy, who would become known as William the Conqueror, arguably changed the course of English history more profoundly than any ruler before or since. Despite beginning life as a ...

The symbol of the hammer and sickle is typically presented in a two-dimensional format, with the hammer crossed over the curved blade of the sickle (a tool traditionally used for harvesting crops, ...

How did many Nazis escape – and who helped them? Rumour has long had it that the nefarious ODESSA, codename for a supposed ‘Organisation of Former SS Members’, sluiced Nazis out of Europe to South ...