George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

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Jesus’ procession was a parody of imperial power — a deliberate mockery of Roman spectacle and a prophetic enactment of a ...

In the early centuries of recorded history, Hinduism emerged as the dominant global religion. Rooted in the Indian subcontinent, it held the largest following for much of ancient and medieval history ...

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An unexpected discovery occurred during the renovation of a Vienna football field stadium, when construction workers found a ...

America has been around long enough that an article in the magazine’s back pages actually commemorates the last centennial ...

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The geopolitical importance of Cyprus has been both a blessing and a curse, sparking centuries of conflict over control of ...

COMMENTARY: The Council of Nicaea gave Christianity more than a creed — it gave the Church a way to calculate Easter. But ...

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...