In 1386, gathering a multi-ethnic army, Prince Lazar of Serbia defeated the local Ottoman commander Lala Sahin Pasha at ...
Professor David Abulafia, the historian, who has died aged 76, made his name as a revisionary biographer of the Holy Roman ...
Think about the grandest structures humans have ever built. Towering pyramids, sprawling road networks, elaborate bureaucracies governing millions of lives across continents. Empires always feel ...
A new book by author Julian Sancton explores the lengthy quest to find the Spanish galleon—and the political firestorm that ...