The Thirty Years War, a series of wars fought by various European nations for various reasons, ignited in 1618 over an attempt by the king of Bohemia (the future Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II) to ...

Europe News: Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-king, faced crises while ruling the Roman Empire, as reflected in his personal \\"Meditations,\\" now a bestseller. An up ...

During the excavation of the tomb, “a limestone statue of a Roman emperor was found,” Mamdouh Damati, a former minister of archaeology and professor of archaeology at Ain Shams University said.

The Roman Republic lasted from 509 to 27BC and a series of unrest and civil wars in the 1st Century BC marked its transition to an empire. "The oldest coin in the hoard dates back to 152BC and has ...

It was the latter's nephew, the emperor Claudius (10BC to 54AD), who ordered the invasion of Britain in AD43, eventually leading to a Romano-British province which lasted until 5th Century.

Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius is often quoted online for answers. This once-powerful man would have preferred to be a philosopher."Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever ...

Emperor Napoleon III commissioned the building in the 1850s but would never see its completion. ... Napoleon III was beaten in two months by Otto von Bismarck and fled to London.

One of the most famous is the Mendoza Codex, which was created in 1542 for Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor. The document features Aztec glyphs accompanied by texts written in ...

Napoleon III was beaten in two months by Otto von Bismarck and fled to London. Then came a citizens' revolutionary uprising known as the Paris Commune. Historian Christopher Mead.

The Arch of Titus was built in 82 AD as a boastful tribute to the conquests of the Roman Emperor Titus. Nearly two thousand years later it remains as an ...

Despite this, Antinous’ cult remained popular until around the 4th century, when all pagan cults were banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I. Yet the story of Antinous and Hadrian endures. Though ...