Christopher de Bellaigue’s The Lion House is a striking slice of narrative non-fiction with all the verve of an immersive ...

Roman writer Cicero referenced the treatment ... from the colorfully decorated artworks that characterized the Ottoman Empire. As a result, in the 18th and 19th centuries, even as large-scale ...

Ionia came under the control of larger powers, such as the Athenian Empire (Delian League) and later the Macedonian and Roman empires. Despite the political changes, the Ionian cities continued to be ...

Why's the most holy month also the most expensive month?! Just across the borders India and Iran take steps to ensure affordability during Ramazan. India, for instance, cuts import duties ...

Whatever the reasons for its inception, the wall stood as one of the largest construction projects carried out in Roman Britain. It was also rebuilt and extended numerous times throughout the Roman ...

The Roman Empire was one of the greatest empires in history. Starting in 27 B.C.E. after the fall of the Roman Republic, the impact of the Roman Empire — and its expansion across Europe and beyond — ...

Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address the inflation that was rampaging across the eastern half of the divided Roman Empire. Prices of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like the exquisite yarn of the Andean vicuña, the conglomerate is becoming an exotic rarity. The corporate ...

French filmmaker Bruno Dumont has long been concerned with the cinema’s ability to forge reality. His early works ... None of his recent films are as strange and bewildering as “The Empire,” a science ...

At its height it was also the largest building of its type north of the Alps, showing the importance of London within the Roman Empire. A reconstruction of how the basilica and forum may have looked ...

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