An archaeologist shows a group of visitors around excavations at the heart of Benin City in Nigeria, in an area that was once part of the royal palace of the Benin Kingdom. When visitors arrive at ...

As the Western Empire buckled, Britain slipped from imperial control into self-rule, economic collapse, and relentless raids, until new peoples arrived and the old Roman cities emptied into legend.

Historical empires like Spain, Britain, and the Soviet Union have experienced economic decline through seven identifiable stages, including military overextension and currency debasement.

Abstract: In recent years, significant progress has been made in extracting buildings from high spatial resolution (HSR) remote sensing images due to the rapid development of deep learning (DL).

Mr Crais makes an even bolder argument, and applies it more broadly. Over 700 gore-splattered pages, he contends that ...

The town of Port Royal is located at the mouth of Kingston Harbour in southeastern Jamaica. It was a major 17th-century English port city. A devastating earthquake in 1692 submerged much of the town ...

A short clip has been circulating on Instagram, often paired with gin labels and captions about empire and empire-building. It shows a stiff-backed British aristocrat aboard a yacht, briefly ...

A D-Day veteran awarded a British Empire Medal has said Britain today is “disappointing” and warned the country risks repeating mistakes made before the Second World War. Mervyn Kersh, 101, from ...

Amy and Ryan Jackson, co-founders of the Lily Mae Foundation, have each been awarded a British Empire Medal in the New Year Honours list A couple who founded a charity to support parents who have lost ...

Loubna Mrie grew up calling two men father. When the family needed money, her mother would press the phone into her daughter's hand and guide her words: "Tell him the fridge is empty. Tell him his ...