Few figures from antiquity capture the imagination quite like the Amazons: fearsome warrior women who fought Greek heroes, rode horses into battle and lived in societies ruled by beautiful and ...

At the peak of its glory, the Temple of Artemis towered above the ancient city of Ephesus standing as a vast sanctuary of marble and gold that drew pilgrims from across the Mediterranean. Counted ...

Martin Luther King gave his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech towards the close of the March on Washington on 28 August 1963. This event was backed by a fractious coalition of African-American civil rights ...

“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 ...

How did the two men meet? Why did they come to blows, and why did England’s king die at the hands of a foreign invader? Few people knew the answers to those questions, and those who did were not ...

The military playbook of the ancient Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia was as calculated as it was brutal. Shaped by formidable rulers – among them Tiglath-Pileser III, Sargon II and Ashurbanipal – ...