Long before ruling Rome, Julius Caesar faced Cilician pirates, raised his own ransom, and turned kidnapping into a ruthless ...

Cleopatra’s life was shaped by family murder, Roman ambition, civil war, and the desperate fight to keep Egypt independent.

From Empress Sisi to Princess Charlotte, these royal women became historical icons through beauty, influence, and ...

"Et tu, Brute?" (“You too, Brutus?”) has become history's most famous betrayal line, but it's not really history at all. Let’s retrace history in an attempt to discover what the Roman dictator ...

History has a funny way of simplifying people. Centuries of retellings, political agendas, and storytelling instincts have a ...

Now, with streaming service HBO Max having launched in the UK, the channel's enormous back catalogue is finally within reach ...

A proposed crypto-based bank, headquartered in Dallas, is a step closer to fruition.  Augustus National Bank received preliminary conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the ...

He appeared with Christopher Lee in ‘Count Dracula,’ with Arnold Schwarzenegger in ‘Conan the Barbarian’ and in lots of exploitation flicks made in Spain.

Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays ...

Walking past the central fountain in Highland Park and through the emerald-colored grass on Sunday afternoon, visitors encountered a tent in the shadows of a large tree. Surrounding the tent were ...

The making of a coin is like the making of a successful political campaign: The artist must clarify and concentrate a big idea into a symbol or slogan, so simple and telling that even the distracted ...

What makes a man truly great? As President Donald Trump celebrates the ouster of dictators in Iran and Venezuela, and jokes about running for a third term in 2028, I can’t help but think of the two ...