The cosmos seem silent and empty of any great interstellar empires, but perhaps they once existed, and if so, what titanic ruins might they have left behind?

THE two stout volumes which represent the work before us cover so wide a field, that it is practically impossible to enter into any detailed criticism of their contents. All that it is possible to ...

After World War II, nations pledged to create a more equal and law-abiding world. Now Russia, China and the U.S. are returning to an older model in which powerful countries impose their will.

For 400 years, the Eastern Mediterranean was the domain of two great powers: the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. As rivals, they fought seven different wars, but in peacetime they ...

So Croesus did indeed destroy a great empire, but it was his own. Fast-forward to today’s drive by the Biden administration to extend American military power against Russia and, behind it, China.

Alexander the Great’s legacy has given him god-like status. ... 2,000 years on, we talk about Alexander but not Cyrus the Great, who founded the Achaemenid Empire in 550 BCE: racism.

In comments made by video to Catholic youth in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Friday, Pope Francis praised 18th-century Russian rulers and the Great Russia they helped create — an empire that ...

T en thousand Britons crowded into Hyde Park last week on Queen Victoria’s birthday, more popularly known as Empire Day, which England sets aside to honor her great inheritance.. In the natural ...

Empire or Commonwealth, Britons of both the Morrison and Churchill stripes intend to keep some sort of hold upon their possessions in the postwar world.

The Aztec Empire flourished in the Valley of Mexico between A.D. 1325 and 1519 and was the last great civilization before the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century.