The rivalry between Rome and Carthage for control of the western Mediterranean culminated in the three Punic Wars, fought ...

The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

Legal language is harsh and convoluted for most people, a sentiment that law students who have to memorize laws would surely ...

It's tempting to say, and probably true, that no rule made by Paris goes unbent in the city of Marseille. The capital of Provence has a well-deserved reputation as a rough and unruly place ...

The plume from Roanoke Island “put us in good hope that some of the colony were there expecting my return out of England,” he wrote later. Three years had passed since the governor had set out ...

The Ancient Greeks took their entertainment very seriously and used drama as a way of investigating the world they lived in, and what it meant to be human. The three genres of drama were comedy ...

One section of the Atlas focuses on the archaeology of Guyana (1795-1953) studying its history of slavery, as a penal colony and gold panning ... on the tin and amber route attracted Mediterranean, ...

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In his latest (and perhaps last) movie as a director, Eastwood casts a skeptical eye at the criminal justice system in a mystery starring Nicholas Hoult. By Manohla Dargis In this delicate drama ...