History shows that linguistics evolve in unpredictable ways — and that the supremacy of English is not guaranteed.

A study of the Roman conquest of Anatolia reveals how imperial expansion fueled economic growth but ultimately triggered ...

Constantinople, the magnificent capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

The Uffizi in Florence opened a new temporary exhibition yesterday under the title Florence and Europe. Arts of the Eighteenth Century at the Uffizi. As you'll see from the video above, amongst the ...

History, Politics and Economics are brought to life in the exciting context of Russia and Eastern Europe, and combine some of the most important approaches for understanding the social, cultural, ...

New evidence from the Mandrin Cave in Southern France suggests that Homo sapiens occupied Europe at least 10,000 years earlier than previously believed. Archaeologists discovered fossilized remains of ...

AD marked the fall of the Exarchate of Ravenna and the end of direct Roman rule in Italy. What followed was a transformation of Europe and the beginning of a new medieval order. This is the story of ...

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