Congress Taps Jefferson: Declaration Committee Formed

Eratosthenes calculated that Greek forces sacked and burned Troy in 1184 BC, ending a decade-long siege that shattered the city's power and reshaped the Aegean …

Alexander collapsed in Babylon after days of fever or agonizing pain from a bowl of wine, leaving no clear heir behind. His sudden death at thirty-two shattered…

A Roman army, cut off and dying of thirst in Moravia, was saved by a thunderstorm. That's the official story. But Marcus Aurelius, a Stoic philosopher who spent…

Eighty thousand people came home because of a gift basket. Emperor Taizong didn't send armies north to the Xueyantuo — he sent diplomats carrying gold and silk,…

Tang China was paying ransom for its own people — prisoners taken during the chaos of a civil war that had ended years earlier. Emperor Taizong sent envoys nort…

Two rival empires showed up at the same door on the same day and nearly started a war over who knocked first. The Abbasid Arabs and Uyghur Turks had both travel…