Fans of Monty Python's Life of Brian will be familiar with John Cleese's laughable dismissal of Roman influence over Judea.

The show is situated in the museum’s enchanting terra-cotta arcade, which gives the displayed objects—red velvet pillows, ...

The legendary Roman empire took in every country around the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called “Mare Nostrum”—”Our Sea.”) It was so powerful that it managed to last for 500 years in the West ...

Europe is full of historical sites and popular tourist destinations that draw millions of visitors every year. If you have ...

George The Poet, who was questioned about this on Newsnight, believes a lack of education about black British history - and the British Empire - plays ... of Faro from the Moors - Muslims from ...

While many Moorish individuals analysed in the study ... After the fall of the Roman Empire, wandering tribes from northern and eastern Europe streamed into Iberia. The Visigoths, who spoke ...

Algiers is a city so endowed with historical architecture that the new mosque, down by the harbour, was built in 1660, while ...

Book at least a couple of months in advance and you can take advantage of lower-priced tickets, and make seat reservations ...

With the Jews gone and the Moors defeated, Ferdinand and Isabella ... He was excommunicated by the pope and rejected by the Holy Roman emperor Charles V, but he had captured the imagination ...

Drop the Brontë sisters in "The Twilight Zone," stir in a little Samuel Beckett, and you might approximate Jen Silverman’s dark comedy "The Moors." Renaissance Theaterworks' sparkling new ...

Here at Empire, we like to believe that you can have ... and even the stock lines and characters – "Stay off the moors!" – are performed in such a way that they never grate.

As I was leaving "The Moors" at Renaissance Theatreworks, I was thinking "I must see this again." This gothic comedy, from playwright Jen Silverman, tells the twisted tale of a young governess ...