George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on Ancient Civilizations continues with an in-depth look at how the Slavic peoples migrated into the Balkans. Building on our previous ...

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...

The Byzantine Empire is known for many things, however, not many people know the unusual life journeys of some of its emperors, like Basil I.

The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I came close to uniting the former Roman Empire less than a century after its fall. However, ...

The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

On Wednesday, after archaeological analysis, experts at the Vienna Museum gave a first public presentation of the grave — linked to “a catastrophic event in a military context ... Soldiers in the ...

Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence said it had tracked 19 Chinese navy vessels in the waters surrounding the island in a 24-hour period from 6am Monday until 6am Tuesday. The Chinese military ...

This would include speeding up a Biden administration-era plan to create a new joint U.S.-Japan military command in Tokyo that he called a “war-fighting headquarters,” although Mr. Hesgeth did ...

Born about 600 BCE in what is now southwestern Iran, Cyrus “the Great” is considered the founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire. He is remembered as “the Great” to distinguish him from his ...

Subscribe to the Daily News Brief. The United States maintains a considerable military presence in the Middle East, with forces in more than a dozen countries and on ships throughout the region ...

Vice President JD Vance and Usha Vance will visit the US military's base in Greenland on Friday. Pituffik Space Base was established in 1951 as part of a defense treaty between the US and Denmark.