New research uncovered evidence suggesting ancient warriors in Europe used natural stimulants to enhance performance in ...

When Germanic warriors charged into battle during the Roman era, they may have done so under the influence of carefully dosed ...

The epic clash between Achilles and Memnon, king of the Ethiopians, was a battle of titans that would determine the fate of ...

Ancient statues, coins, jewels and still-intact eggs from Roman and Etruscan times have been recovered from thermal baths in ...

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism. The first argument came from a Roman philosopher called Sextius whom ...

Several decades ago, a national park was declared for some fifty square miles surrounding Troy and UNESCO declared it a World ...

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

This book provides a brief, clear account of the main developments in the history of the Greek, Etruscan and Roman architecture, from the earliest times to the foundation of Constantinople. It ...

Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual ...

A remarkably crafted head of the Greek goddess Tyche, dating back to the Roman era, has been unearthed in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, offering exciting new insights into the ancient city of Philippopolis.

Regarded by historians with either denial or disdain, these women warriors have always had to fight for recognition ...

O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century” over the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend bared divisions over race and law ...