Historian Josephine Quinn explores how the Phoenicians and their great colony, Carthage, built a maritime empire that once ...

Andrew Carnegie stood at just 4 feet 10 inches tall, yet this Scottish immigrant reshaped American industry and philanthropy ...

Vlad III Dracula, the brutal warlord and inspiration for Bram Stoker’s genre-defining vampire, has long held a reputation as ...

How did the Norse adventurers of the Viking Age impose themselves upon eastern Europe? Not with longships and raids, says one ...

Who was the legendary Viking warrior Thorkell the Tall, and precisely how tall was he? From his links with the Jomsvikings to ...