THE SECRET TUNNELS OF THE RULERS OF EUROPE; Scarcely a Palace Is Without Its Labyrinth of Underground Passages and Vaults Whose Mysteries, in Many Cases, Are Unsolved.

Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the best European monarchs from across all of history. Elizabeth I was the Queen of England from 1558 until 1603, reigning as the ...

Powerful empires throughout history have risen by mastering warfare, governance, trade, and culture, leaving legacies that continue to shape the modern world. From the innovative Roman Empire to the ...

The dynamics of socio-political evolution of nomadic societies depends on many internal and external factors, leadership being a special one amongst them. There was interrelation between the power of ...

In the old days, when the rulers of Europe faced a balance-of-payments problem, they turned not to economists but to alchemists, who always seemed to be just on the verge of discovering how to turn ...

Has the sun finally set on the British Empire? Prince Charles thinks so. When Great Britain handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997, the heir to the British throne called it the “end of the Empire.” ...

This month marks the 150th anniversary of the last attempt at European rule in Mexico. Local historian M. M. McAllen brings this fascinating story to life in her new book, Maximilian and Carlota. It ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not ...

"As for the greater number of revolutionists, they unhappily know only of the theatrical side of former revolutions as related with forced effect by historians, and they scarcely suspected the immense ...