Whether it our own family legacy or the history of the world, there has never been a more important time to remember the ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of ...

Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

As Emily In Paris relocates to the Italian capital, Harry Styles is regularly spotted on its cobbled streets, and the likes ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Mangled bones found at a one-time manufacturing facility pinpoint species used to make a quintessential condiment.

Since the time of ancient Rome and Greece, people have dealt with love, this difficult emotion, in all its glory and calamity ...

In “Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years,” Paula Fredriksen explores how a localized sect became a universal Roman church.

A 2000 year old novel, considered a “gossip-y” account of the Roman Emperors’ personal lives, has entered the book's bestseller charts. The Lives of the Caesars, originally written in Latin ...

KING OF PONTUS (208 pp.)—Alfred Duggan—Coward-McCann ($3.95). “Mithridates, he died old,” sang A. E. Housman in A Shropshire Lad—leaving it largely up to his readers to know who ...