Calling on the God of peace and love to exercise such wrath would be disorienting any time. But in this holiest of holy times ...

Oh, not another story about me,” she cried. “Another book about how I was the world’s worst mother. I wish you could find ...

Letters: Mary Evans, Aidan Walker and Ruth Baker on Simon Jenkins’ suggestion for how to deal with the US president Phoebe Merrick and John Spencer on religion and war, Rev Canon John Longuet-Higgins ...

It was the first genocide of the twentieth century. In January 1904, the Herero people of Southwest Africa (today’s Namibia), ...

Discover 25 everyday objects with dark origins, from torture devices to war tools. Uncover the shocking history behind common ...

A mass grave containing seven skeletons believed to be those of Roman soldiers from 1,800 years ago has been discovered in an ...

Archaeologists researching a battlefield in Switzerland discovered a Roman military camp 7,000 feet above sea level. The camp is roughly 2,000 years old and ties to the Roman battlefield in the Colm ...

In 2024, archaeologists announced that they’d excavated a small room inside a lavish home in ancient Pompeii. The space was likely a sacrarium, an area used to conduct rituals and store sacred objects ...

Ancient Roman forces may have used the polybolos to quell a rebellion at Pompeii in 89 B.C.E. The unique weapon was likely ...

The brutalisation of global norms by figures like Pete Hegseth has become a fight against chaos, and all major religions must play a role, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall ...

Corto Maltese,” Hugo Pratt’s influential 1967 graphic novel, returns, with just as much to say about childhood during wartime ...