Over 2,000 years later and Cleopatra's Pools at the site of ancient Hierapolis is still popular with visitors who wish to ...

March 15 is associated with misfortune and doom. On this day, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was murdered at the hands of ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life-sized frescoes that offer fresh insight into religious practices in the ancient city before it was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, the ...

First word THE phrase "ides of March" (the 15th day of March in ancient Roman calendar) has carried a sense of foreboding ever since William Shakespeare popularized it through his play, "Julius Caesar ...

ROME (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life-sized frescoes that offer fresh insight into religious practices in the ancient ... to 40–30 BC, presents vivid ...

Cicero was the greatest orator in Roman history, born into the upper echelons of Roman society at a time when the Senate (the ‘S' in ‘SPQR') was still the final word in how that great civilisation ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Egypt’s Eastern Desert has revealed the harsh reality faced by miners during the ...

Yet the Ptolemies also embraced the syncretism of ancient Greek and Egyptian religious ... Domain / Wikimedia Commons Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC, depriving Cleopatra of a powerful ally in Rome.

At the time of the comic's setting -- 44 years before the birth of Jesus Christ -- Rome under Julius Caesar's military genius ...

The Trevi Fountain, arguably the world’s most famous, has graced screens for decades, from Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” to ...