H ave you thought about the Roman Empire yet today?Just in case you haven’t, AlmaOtter and BoilerUp89 are here to release the first half of this week’s Big Ten football power poll in which we ...

A few years later, while in Berlin, Ernst Herzfeld collaborated with M. Sobernheim by drafting architectural plans for the 1905 expedition to Baalbeck. At that time, He might have gained access to the ...

By the middle of the third century the Palmyrene empire was already enjoying a certain independence—albeit as a client state within the Roman Empire. Zenobia sought to change that. Queen Takes Egypt ...

The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the Empire's collapse, archaeologists say. A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge completed a 13-year dig at ...

But while Palmyra thrived, the Roman Empire entered a period of crisis. In the mid-3rd century, a series of barbarian invasions led to a breakdown of internal political cohesion.

Boudicca. As queen of the Celtic Iceni tribe in the British Isles, Boudicca (seen above in a statue in London) was no stranger to power. But when her husband (if you guessed Prasutagus, you’re ...

After the death of her husband the king and her stepson, Zenobia took the throne and led her army to conquer parts of Syria, Turkey, Jordan and Egypt and build up the Palmyrene Empire – largely ...

The Arab queen Zenobia, of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria, rebelled against Rome to conquer the eastern third of the Roman Empire. And Joan of Arc, ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Queen Zenobia, a famous military leader of the ancient world. Born in around 240 AD, Zenobia was Empress of the Palmyrene Empire in the Middle East.

Notable removals include Nazik al-Abid, dubbed the “Arab Joan of Arc”; Queen Zenobia, the third-century ruler of the Palmyrene Empire; and Khawla bint al-Azwar, a seventh-century Muslim warrior.

The Roman Empire controlled Palmyra to varying degrees over the centuries, ... Syria and Palestine and incorporate them into a larger Palmyrene Empire (269-273 A.D.).

The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the Empire's collapse, archaeologists say.. A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge completed a 13-year dig at ...