Archaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

His judgments would help shape Roman history for centuries to come ... form the basis of our understanding of the Roman Empire in the first century AD.

The history of Mexico is very long and very complex ... led by Agustín de Iturbide. This First Empire of Mexico lasted from 1821 to 1823, during which time Mexico ruled under a constitutional ...

By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government ... abandoned the land in 1590. The first successful colony was set ...

Despite this, Nero's persecution of the new Christian sect was brief and, in the first century at least, was not repeated in other parts of the empire. When asked by Pliny the Younger how to deal ...

What really ended the Dark Age of Technology. It might be our pointy-eared frenemies – the Aeldari.

History 's greatest empires covered a fifth of the world, ruled hundreds of millions of people, and lasted anywhere from 100 years to over a millennium. Empire, which comes from the Latin ...