In trying to intertwine several narratives, this book becomes impractical by confusing its variation of themes ...

Ian Stewart’s great achievement in his vivid new book The Celts is to examine these rifts and complexities with imagination ...

Pax Augusta is a highly detailed and highly ambitious city-builder from solo developer Roger Gassman. You take control of a ...

They resemble characters we find in the chronicles of [the Roman historian] Tacitus or the Italian philosopher Machiavelli. On the other hand, these figures benefit from the support of the tech ...

In prehistoric Northwest Europe, it was not uncommon for the dead to be deliberately placed in the watery pools of peatlands.

In terms of the execution of Jesus, we know from the Roman historian Tacitus, and the Jewish historian Josephus, that there was a movement, that the founder was executed, and that the movement ...

But of course there is other historical evidence that Jesus was dead at point A. The Jewish historian Josephus affirms his death as does the Roman Tacitus who states Jesus was put to death by Pontius ...

So how reliable is he? The same question applies to the other, greater historian of the early empire – Tacitus, born AD 56 – and also to Dio Cassius (c AD 165–235). Delighted but often puzzled by ...

More is almost always better. That is certainly the case when investigating Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection. In the last couple of weeks, we have looked at the writings of ...

Good old Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17) in his Early History of Rome, Vol. I, tells us that “the study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind” and ...

Eminent Sikh scholar Gurtej Singh has filed a criminal defamation case against historian Dr. Gurdarshan Singh Dhillon and a local broadcaster, alleging they falsely linked him to the 1984 Sikh ...