The Vikings weren’t a unified people, and Scandinavia was peppered with small, warring states ruled by kings, jarls, and ...

For Romans, Augustus was the saviour who ended civil war; Tacitus reveals how power and propaganda traded liberty for the Pax ...

It took Edward Gibbon 12 years from conception to publication to produce the first volume of The History of the Decline And ...

BBC series Civilisations Rise And Fall seems to believe its core audience struggles with detail and has the attention span of a hyperactive squirrel.

Rise and Fall (BBC Two) is that it has nothing to do with Sir Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series Civilisation, despite the BBC ...

The moments when four ancient worlds faced disaster are brought to life in an epic new series exploring Rome, Egypt, the ...

The third major series in the "Civilisation" strand looks at huge change in Rome, Egypt, Japan and the lost world of the ...

Other Roman emperors met far more bloody ends than the cheese-loving Antoninus. Nero committed suicide; Galba was murdered by ...

Set in 409, as the Roman Empire crumbles, Mark J.F. Hudson’s Beyond the Black Gate (Conrad Press, £10.99; Tablet price £9.89) follows Nehtan, a young Christian woman rescued in northern Gaul by Fromus ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In the third century CE, a new dynasty known as the Sasanians came to power in ancient Iran. Within a few years, the first Sasanian ...

Israel’s version of “Saturday Night Live” portrayed President Donald Trump as a conquering Roman emperor in a new musical sketch. Yair Rosenberg, a staff writer for “The Atlantic,” posted the new skit ...

The Israeli version of Saturday Night Live has portrayed U.S. President Donald Trump as a conquering Roman emperor in a wild musical number posted to social media. The Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg ...