It was a Thai court decision last year that swept Paetongtarn Shinawatra into the prime minister's office and now, once again, the fate of the 38-year-old novice politician lies in the hands of the ...

Making of an empire As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

No empire has ever easily accepted its decline, and neither will the US. It intends to hold onto its status as the unquestionable superpower, and for that, it needs imperial outposts to stand ...

The decline of an empire The US dollar, not its merchandise or services, became America’s principal export. After decades of enjoying this benefit, US finds itself confronting multiple ...

California is running out of license plate numbers. Here's the license plate sequence starting next year Award-winning pilot flew aircraft uniquely his own New Dallas Police Chief hiring new ...

Henry Gee’s previous book, A Brief History of Life on Earth, made an interestingly downbeat read for a title that won the UK’s science book prize. He emphasised that a constant feature of that history ...

The man Kanisetti is referring to is the Chola emperor, Parantaka, “the foe-destroyer”, a third-generation ruler who “killed his half-brother, took the Chola throne and set about marrying ...

A significant remnant of the Mauryan dynasty, the Ashoka Pillar or stambh is among the many pillars created by the Mauryan emperor. It’s also an important tourist attraction in the city.

They were derived from using isolated finds and small case studies that were projected onto the entire Roman Empire. ... MENAFN24122024000159011032ID1109027085 Legal Disclaimer: ...

The decline occurred in the 7th century, and so cannot be connected to sudden climate change or the plague which happened more than half a century before. It seems the Roman Empire entered the 7th ...

Our new book, Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe, recounts the gripping and often horrifically violent tale of the collapse of Charlemagne’s empire.