Historian Marc David Baer calls the Ottomans "very much a European empire" and "the unacknowledged part of the story the West ...

Take the new Russian state-backed film “Tolerance .” Released in September 2025 to a less than enthusiastic public response, ...

Southern Europe is a living museum of stone, a sun-soaked land where time has learned to move slowly, and history lingers in ...

Geography, demographics, religion, technology, and a state’s institutions determined why certain states exercised power and how different regions developed the way that they did.

Human history begins not with written words, but with images. Long before there were books or hard drives, ancient civilizations worked with a different kind of memory: murals. When examining ancient ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia ...

Every entry in “Sid Meier’s Civilization” series has a learning curve. The first time players take on a campaign, it’s full of blunders. They have to dig through the new mechanic and discover they ...

Popular culture often paints Medieval Western Europe as a dark, backward time of ignorance, but is that accurate? This video challenges common myths, comparing European and Islamic civilizations ...

The feeling will be familiar to many who have visited the great cities of history: I had come to Athens for the first time and made a pilgrimage to its democratic Assembly, Plato's Academy, and ...

If you want to understand what makes great civilizations possible, consider a walk on Monte Testaccio in central Rome. This 115-foot hill is actually an artificial mound, made up of fragments of ...