Tutankhamon was Akhenaten's son, and he has risen to the throne at the age of 8 or 9. Considering what has transpired in Egypt, he wasn't...

At the height of its power in the 2nd century, the imperial Roman army was a formidable force. It had conquered much of the known world,...

Luncheon at the Savoy Hotel in London was at its height, and in the restaurant some more than 500 elegant diners were tucking into their...

Trudging grimly round the tiny room, her eyes fixed on nothing in particular, the slave pushed the beam that turned the heavy stone mill....

The goddess' ivory skin glowed softly in the half-light of the temple's inner room. Her magnificent frame stood 33 feet (10 meters) tall...

Under the command of the Proconsul Julius Caesar, the Roman army marched at speed through the French countryside in the early spring of...

The British and Franco-Spanish Fleets met off Cape Trafalgar, near Cádiz in southern Spain, on October 21, 1805. Two days earlier, the 33...

It was one of the greatest triumphs of the Western World. In 1455, Johannes Gutenberg of Mainz, Germany, produced the first printed book...

In 1661, the young king of France, Louis XIV, visited Vaux, the superb new estate of the French finance minister Nicolas Fouquet. As the...

Conditions were perfect on that morning in 1640. Without a breath of wind, the poplars surrounding the house were still; there was no...

A torrent of mud swept down one side of the cut and up the other. Charles Gaillard, the engineer in charge of the Panama Canal, stood...

As the icy Baltic wind gusted about him, Peter The Great, tsar of Russia, surveyed the desolate landscape that he had just wrested from...

As the Roman Empire collapsed in the 5th Century, marauding Goths and Vandals drove many inhabitants of the northern Italian province of...