After hunter-gatherers became farmers and farming gave rise to cities, cities gave rise to empires. They grew through military conquest, were built by slaves and were maintained with brutal violence, ...

The history of the world is, perhaps unfortunately, the history of empires. As far back as historians can take us, humans have sought to subjugate one another, and some have proved particularly good ...

It has been argued in this column and elsewhere that we are now in a new age of imperial resurgence – what with the force projections abroad of Russia, Iran and Turkey proceeding in tandem with ...

A new study revealed which ancient empire had the greatest inequality, challenging beliefs about Rome and China.

Cylinder seals from Ur, c. 2450 BC, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, USA In the first article of this series, I provided a brief historical overview of the Neo-Assyrian, Urartian, and Achaemenid empires, ...

A woman's skull, approximately 1,400 years old, discovered during the excavation of her grave in what is now Ergoldsbach. Using a tiny bone fragment from the skull, palaeogeneticists at JGU ...

The dusty remnants of ancient civilizations hold secrets that would astound even today’s most brilliant engineers and scientists. Scattered across archaeological sites worldwide lie the fragments of ...

A new study by Columbia University historian John Ma has uncovered evidence of a hidden army operating within the Roman Empire during the first century AD. Published in the Journal of Roman Studies, ...

Ancient Empires is a fantasy turn-based tactics game series developed by Macrospace for cell phones. The first game Ancient Empires was published by Macrospace on March 4, 2004. Games metadata is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The archaeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Bronze Age Hittite empire, is a hotbed of ancient ...