Before the Punic Wars, as Rome and Carthage edged towards conflict in the third century BC, the balance of power in the ...

In 1756, Europe erupted into war — and Frederick the Great struck first. This episode traces the start of the Seven Years’ War, the realignment of European powers, and how one of history’s greatest ...

When divers plunged into the waters off Sicily’s Egadi Islands last summer, they didn’t just find rare artifacts from antiquity. They found the wreckage of an empire’s turning point. Resting on the ...

Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Being a gamer all his life and enjoying everything from ARPGs like Diablo to JRPGs like Pokemon and Persona, ...

Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope each discovered troves of dinosaur fossils in the 19th century—but grew obsessed with bringing each other down in the Bone Wars. Men unearth the giant bones of a mammoth ...

When the United States launched a "large scale strike" by military forces in Venezuela on Saturday, capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, it followed a long history of U.S.

Mr. Rhodes is a contributing Opinion writer. He was a deputy national security adviser under President Barack Obama. In the aftermath of America’s victory in the 1991 Persian Gulf war, President ...

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