The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...

Thomas of Argos was a Greek mercenary who served King Henry VIII of England in the 16th century in the wars against Scotland ...

Gen. David Allvin, the chief of staff, said the service has already signed up and enlisted 74% of the people it set for its ...

A newly excavated horse cemetery in Germany dates to Roman times.

The self-perpetuated legend of Lawrence of Arabia, who spent his final years in Dorset, grows ever more intriguing ...

The discovery of a young man’s remains in a gladiator graveyard in York, England, has shed new light on the brutal history of Roman Britain. Buried between 1,825 and 1,725 years ago, the man’s pelvis ...

The Course of Empire' is a cycle of paintings by 19th-century artist Thomas Cole that depict the rise and fall of an ...

In the annals of military history, few stories are as remarkable and unexpected as that of Dr Charles Snodgrass Ryan, an ...

For most humans who have breathed Earth's air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as ...

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

And there, on the sideline, is the man himself. Before I can procrastinate ... Tiger Schulmann’s martial-arts empire is vast. He has fifty-four schools across the Northeast, where his senseis ...

The initial waves of popular support that greeted recent coups in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger startled some analysts. They wondered whether the militarism embodied in these new regimes constituted a ...