The Chancay deep-water port is one of Beijing's most ambitious infrastructure investments in Latin America. Read more at ...

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Morocco is a fascinating country – a treasure trove, really, of captivating history and stunning landscapes. From the se ...

The naumachiae seem mostly to have been recreations of famous historical engagements – in the movie, it's the Battle of ...

And his latest, Gladiator II, has already drawn the ire of historians. Details like a rhino ridden by a gladiator and sharks munching on unlucky combatants in the Colosseum have been raising eyebrows ...

Did you know about 30 countries worldwide have no rivers? This fact changes how we see geography and how resources are spread ...

Ever since the days of the Roman Empire, European countries have dreamed of uniting the continent again under one government. In no country was that dream held more dearly than Italy, where the ruins ...

Before the rupture of the Oriental Orthodox Churches in 451 over the Council of Chalcedon, before the Great Schism between ...

Through three election cycles in Catholicism – conclaves that brought John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis to the papacy – ...

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As Egypt expands its influence in North Africa, it continues to bump into rebellious Tuaregs, who are not alone in opposing Egyptian influence, While Egypt has the largest economy in North Africa, the ...

New DNA evidence revealed that long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii were not as they seemed. When a volcanic eruption engulfed the ancient city of Pompeii, the final desperate moments of its ...