It’s not every day that a jaunt with a metal detector turns up something truly revelatory. One might expect to find a vintage engagement ring or a necklace lost to time—but a set of over a thousand ...

Stephenson, a historian at the University of Durham, successfully combines historical documents, examples of Roman art, sculpture, and coinage with the lessons of geopolitics to produce a complex ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine received a vision from God: if he embraced Christianity he would win. His ...