Chandragupta Maurya, India's first emperor, overthrew the Nanda dynasty. He unified the subcontinent and established the ...

The martyrs include three French missionaries and a Korean priest executed for violating a ban on Christianity ...

HISTORYFor several centuries - especially from the 16th to the early 20th century - Europe’s royal families were deeply ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a royal tomb linked to King Midas' family in Turkey, revealing bronze vessels and insights ...

Critics feared it would plunge the Middle East into a wider war. That doomsday scenario has not come to pass, at least for ...

It confirms the defeat of Delhi’s Tughlaq dynasty ruler Firoz Shah Tughlak at the hands of Choda II, an ancestor of Choda III, the latter being a subordinate ruler under Eastern Ganga King ...

New Irish-led research casts doubts over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland ...

U nlike ancient Egypt, Hawai’i, or the Inca Empire, Neolithic Ireland probably wasn’t governed by a dynasty of demi-gods who ...

The thinker behind the ‘Republic’ and other works of philosophy also played political adviser to a series of rulers in Sicily ...

A panel of experts investigating and documenting crimes committed by the old regime share their experiences of working in the ...

Professor C. Brian Rose of the Penn Museum, the Excavation Director at Gordion, Türkiye where the tomb was uncovered, spoke ...

A new study challenges the idea that the so-called "king" buried at Newgrange was part of a royal dynasty in Ireland.