The sight of vast graves opening and the undead clawing out should unnerve us all. But we haven’t even noticed. As more blood flows than any horror film offers, it’s brought the hope of eternal life ...

Several empires rose and fell throughout history, leaving lasting legacies. The Persian Empire, spanning from Europe to India, flourished for centuries before Alexander the Great's conquest. The Han ...

Democracy and individual nation states is but a recent phenomenon as most of the world’s recorded history has been dominated by vast empires, some of which ruled more than half of the globe. From the ...

Iraq is invaded and its despot is deposed. Iran encroaches, amassing territory covering Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Israel. The year is 539 BCE, though it eerily echoes events following the fall of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The history of the world is, perhaps unfortunately, the history of empires. As far back as historians can take us, humans have ...

The Persian Empire was the largest empire in history, lasting from 559 BC to 331 BC. The dynasty, which spanned the areas of modern-day Turkey, Iran, Egypt, and parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, ...

Of all the empires that arose and thrived on the face of this earth, which were the five most powerful? And how is it even possible to select five empires from among the hundreds that have flourished ...

Since their invention in the tenth century, engineers, soldiers and tinkerers have constantly tried to make firearms more deadly. Typically that involves moving to heavier bullets driven by more ...