After hunter-gatherers became farmers and farming gave rise to cities, cities gave rise to empires. They grew through military conquest, were built by slaves and were maintained with brutal violence, ...

It has been argued in this column and elsewhere that we are now in a new age of imperial resurgence – what with the force projections abroad of Russia, Iran and Turkey proceeding in tandem with ...

Alexander the Great’s insatiable lust for conquering other nations is given the hero’s treatment in a new three-part series premiering Monday on History Channel. Not only was this lust insatiable, but ...

Ancient DNA is spilling more secrets about the Avars, a fearsome people who built a mysterious empire that ruled much of Central and Eastern Europe for 250 years from the mid-sixth century. Primarily ...

Cylinder seals from Ur, c. 2450 BC, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, USA In the first article of this series, I provided a brief historical overview of the Neo-Assyrian, Urartian, and Achaemenid empires, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hannibal Crossing the Alps by Jacopo Ripanda, c. 1510 - Getty Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning ...

Peter Turchin receives funding from the program “Complexity Science,” which is supported by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG under grant #873927. Starting around 3,000 years ago, a wave of ...

Gather your army for battle once more in this epic sequel to the award-winning Ancient Empires. Control fire-breathing dragons, lethal archers and fearsome wolves as you fight to defend your kingdom - ...

Sillysoft Games ( www.sillysoft.net) has released their new strategy game Ancient Empires Lux. It's available now to download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The game lets players take control of the ...