On Defender of the Fatherland Day, Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden. The President observed a minute of silence in memory of the fallen soldiers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin must be prosecuted as a war criminal regardless of the outcome of talks to end almost four ...

The late Byzantine scholar Eleni Glykatzi-Arveler, one of Greece's most internationally recognised historians, will be remembered as a vivid and charismatic presence. Once, at the 2016 Delphi Economic ...

Alexander the Great’s tomb was once one of the most visited sites in the ancient world. Roman emperors traveled to see it. Then it vanished. Wars, earthquakes, and rebuilding erased its location.

The Nile nourishes a green band stretching through the desert, from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. Along its ...

President Vladimir Putin marked Defender of the Fatherland Day by promising to improve Russia’s nuclear triad and handing out ...

An ancient skyscraper considered the seventh wonder of the world crumbled to ruin centuries ago. Now an ambitious archaeological project aims to reassemble it in 3-D.

Since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has sought supplies of motor oil additives and lubricants from third countries to maintain its military-industrial capacity ...

Some of the world’s most infamous conquerors established empires in Samarkand, the 3000-year-old city that is now part of ...

Such a larger-than-life character was a ripe role for a number of actors who have played him in the movies and on TV. On this Presidents Day, let's shout out a great big "Bully!" to these five men who ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Mourners gathered in Moscow Monday to mark two years since the death in custody of Russian opposition leader ...

A Ukrainian delegation was heading to Geneva on Monday for another round of U.S.-brokered talks with Russian officials, ahead ...