Forough Alaei’s stunning photographs of a community of fisherwomen on a remote island in the Persian Gulf.

Learn how Suleiman the Magnificent transformed the Ottoman Empire into a dominant world superpower, expanding its territory ...

A new exhibition is spotlighting the women who have long been sidelined in histories of the Roman Empire—from mothers and weavers to entrepreneurs and influential tavern owners ...

The only woman ever to have ruled the mighty Assyrian Empire, Semiramis titillated writers and painters from the Roman period to the 19th century. Queen Semiramis surveys the building of Babylon ...

Julia Domna can stake a claim to being one of the most influential women of the Roman Empire. Aside from perhaps the ...

The Parthian Fortresses of Nisa consist of two tells of Old and New Nisa, indicating the site of one of the earliest and most important cities of the Parthian Empire, a major power from the mid 3rd ...