Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on October 13. Check what happened ...

1881 Adderly Street, in Cape Town, gets its first electric lights installed.

Emperor Nero has gone down in history as the archetypal bad ruler - cruel, decadent, and perhaps even responsible for setting Rome ablaze. But how much of this is fact, and how much is propaganda? Dr ...

‘Pax’ is the third book from historian Tom Holland’s extensive bibliography to receive an exclusive luxury edition courtesy ...

A cache of coins bearing the faces of the Roman emperors Constantius II and Constans I was discovered in underground tunnels ...

A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D.

An 1,800-year-old silver amulet found in a Frankfurt grave, inscribed with 18 lines of Latin text, reveals the earliest ...

Every nation has its rituals of irony, but few perform them with Nigeria’s flair. When the list of over a hundred people ...

An erratic leader, a weak Senate and ill-judged economic policies leading to a contraction in world trade. The fall of the Roman Empire was followed by over 1000 years of stagnation. Donald Trump shou ...

This week in New York City, I moderated a panel at Climate Week, a global gathering of leaders from government, business, ...

Through its coercive monopoly over money creation, government constantly engages in silent theft through inflation, all done ...

Political and fiscal uncertainty in major economies including the US, France and Japan is putting pressure on their currencies and making investors nervous.