The modern state, unlike the medieval monarchy, does not merely tax to sustain itself or to defend the nation. It taxes to ...

Conspiracy theories might feel like a modern phenomenon, but one has its roots in the flat landscape of the Cambridgeshire Fens and dates back nearly 200 years. Camay Chapman-Cameron, who lives in ...

He declared he was able to see it all the way to Welney Bridge, six miles away (9.7km), and to him this proved his theory ... them were two referees and "a circus of the curious and the credulous".

No Carthaginian sources of any kind have survived, and the accounts by the Greek historian Polybius (written about 70 years after the march) and his Roman counterpart Livy (120 years after that ...

The Roman Circus, which celebrated 20 years since its discovery last year, was 450m long and welcomed roaring crowds of 8,000 people. Colchester’s chariot-racing arena is the only known Roman Circus ...

Excavations of some castle-like ruins in Stopfenreuth confirmed a 175-year-old theory. Photos show the ancient Roman structure. Photo from H. Wraunek, Land NÖ via the Austrian Academy of Sciences ...