Mehmed IV wanted to live up to, and even surpass, the legacy of his forefather Mehmed II, who had secured the Ottomans' ...

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Clad in armor while astride fierce destrier warhorses, knights once roamed medieval Europe in the service of their lords and ...

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One way legacy manifests in Civilization VII is through the game’s new civ and leader system. In previous games, choosing a ...

This column’s title is borrowed from Edward Gibbons’ epic tome "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," written in 1776. I ...

Ever since Charles Darwin detailed the mechanism of evolution by means of natural selection in 1859, scientists have had a ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they may be somewhere else entirely. But one thing is certain: Archaeologists ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

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