While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

In the 6th century BC, a league of Boeotian ... the Spartans in the Battle of Hysiae in 669–668 BC. For some historians, this ended Spartan rule. Pheidon introduced such military innovations as ...

Two of the six books on the shortlist for the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction are by Irish authors: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry, set in Butte, Montana, in 1891, and ...

The Hub City Spartanburgers' inaugural season opens at Fifth Third Park. The game against the Bowling Green Hot Rods is sold out. Pregame activities begin at 5:30 p.m., with gates opening at 5 p.m ...

8th and 9th Century BC Stone drawings of Yemeni musical instruments Archaeological excavations have confirmed the antiquity of music in Yemen, demonstrating that it is a unique art form ...

Nonetheless, the ruling was not strictly enforced and some quartodecimans continued to hold Easter on 14 Nisan into the fifth century. As late as 664, the Northumbrian King Oswiu convened a synod ...

While there had been belief in the flat Earth among the peoples of ancient India, China and Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq), this had largely been overturned from 5th Century BC. More recently ...

Having established its value as a territory, Roman Africa prospered through the turn of the fifth century. Cities were Romanized, monuments built and mosaics commissioned by wealthy families ...