Christianity spread across the Roman Empire through persecution, cultural adaptation, and the transformation of pagan beliefs ...

How did the Etruscans, powerful neighbors of Rome, disappear from history? Were they destroyed, or culturally absorbed?

A $2.3 million restoration is using advanced laser technology to clean and preserve the 1,840-year-old Rome’s Column of ...

This short tells a story about what would happen if Italy tried to rebuild the Roman Empire? They would start small, and ...

For di year 449, Pope Leo I establish di date for commemorating di birth of Jesus as one of di main feasts of di Catholic ...

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate ...

The findings, which were published December 9 in the journal Nature Communications, are the clearest evidence of mixing ...

Sediments from a Roman latrine at Vindolanda show soldiers were infected with multiple intestinal parasites, including ...

The ruins of Augusta Raurica near Basel, Switzerland are home to the best-preserved Roman theater north of the Alps.

Ridley Scott’s epic historical sequel, Gladiator II promises to be a dramatic and spectacular, if not particularly ...

The domains of the Habsburgs formed a political and cultural patchwork that would come under increasing strain.

Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate ...