He survived battlefield wounds and conquered an empire stretching from the Mediterranean to India. So when Alexander the ...

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Why would our Iron Age forebears smash craniums and sharpen bones? A forensic archaeological study suggests these were acts ...

Soviet investigators had obtained compelling evidence of Hitler’s death – but Moscow’s public statements told a different ...

Rome attributed its founding, religious institutions and early political organisation to seven kings. These mythical monarchs ...

Having pondered the traits that mark out those who reach the top of the tree and achieve greatness there, Mike Soutar – host ...

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The pope – the supreme pontiff, the Bishop of Rome, God’s representative on Earth – is the head of the Catholic Church worldwide, the leader of a faith with 1.2 billion adherents today. Modern popes ...

The earliest recorded history of the place now called Madrid dates from the ninth century. At that time, it was the site of a Moorish fortress called Magerit – in old Arabic, “place of water”. The ...

It was a blisteringly hot July day and I was on my annual family holiday to Dorset. But instead of heading to the beach, as we had every other day, we were clustered around the small black-and-white ...

What were the Corn Laws? The most infamous Corn Laws were the protectionist measures brought in by the British government in 1815, which restricted the amount of foreign grain that could be imported ...