Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.

From ancient plagues to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, history is marked by devastating outbreaks. These epidemics and ...

I must have missed this piece “The Empire In the Cathedral: Would Jesus recognize His Church?” during the mourning period for ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman sandal near an ancient military fort in Oberstimm, Germany. The highly ...

Groundworker Daniel Graham and mechanic Adam Carruthers each deny two counts of criminal damage to the tree and Hadrian’s ...

With the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome entered a period of political upheaval settled only when Caesar's nephew Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, took control of the Empire ... As ...

Geological evidence off the coast of Iceland suggests climate change as a key factor in the decline of the Roman Empire.

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

What we think of as the Roman Empire lasted from 27 BCE to 476 AD. But the end of the Roman Empire is way more complicated ...

The fall of the Roman Empire could have been avoided if they embraced real reform. It’s a message that rings true in our ...

The death Monday in Rome of Pope Francis, age 88, brought to end one of the most controversial pontificates in recent history ...