A farmer’s 1860 discovery in Slovakia, the Monomachos Crown, may link to Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX. Featuring enameled ...

One of only three surviving Byzantine crowns, it depicts a man and two sisters who jointly ruled the empire in the 11th ...

A farmer’s unexpected discovery in Slovakia has revealed a stunning 1,000-year-old crown ...

Yves-Marie Stranger still remembers the stunned look on the faces of his guests. They had ridden horses in Mongolia, trekked ...

Erin Entrada Kelly, two-time Newbery Medalist and National Book Award finalist, shares the real-life story of Josefina ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

We’re running out of mansions,” the production designer Bob Shaw tells me. “They had a lot of parties and a lot of balls, and ...

Here are a selection of images as almost 8,000 people gathered at a historic dockyard to celebrate the military, past and ...

Google’s profits keep climbing. OpenAI — the same company that fueled a wave of chatbot cheating — now wants to embed AI into every crevice of college life. Not to be outdone, Mark Zuckerberg just ...

While not colonised by European empires, Iran's oil reserves meant it became a key focus for British and Western imperial ...

In late 1825, a group of reform-minded Russian military officers believed the time was ripe to end the rule of the czars.