The 8,000-year-old tradition took root in France around the sixth century B.C. when the southern Gauls were settled by the Greeks, later to be encapsulated in the Roman Empire. Now, archaeologists in ...

In the 6th century AD, during the reign of Emperor Justinian, the Roman Empire experienced an extraordinary resurgence, ...

He was murdered in 217 while among his most trusted soldiers, campaigning in the eastern part of the Roman Empire. According to Beard, “he's assassinated while he's having a pee on the road.” ...

Aquileia, a small town in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeastern Italy, is now a modest place with barely 3,000 ...

Wikimedia When you think of political philosophy, you think of Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel and Johann Fichte. Both ...

Ridley Scott's late-coming sequel "Gladiator II" stakes few claims to necessity, but the action epic definitely entertains.

Why are Western men so obsessed with the Roman Empire? From TikTok trends to Hollywood blockbusters, Rome is everywhere. But what about India? Do empires like the Mauryas, Guptas, Cholas, or Mughals ...

On the left, map of Italy with the Picene area highlighted in red ... showing that a cosmopolitan society began to form in ...

Have you ever seen or heard about the unknown statue of Prince Buda and Princess Pest offering a jaw-dropping panoramic view ...

So, enter the rhino. And baboons. But sharks? Surprisingly, only one of these animals was completely out of the question in the Roman Empire, Ginsberg says. While rhinos could appear in Roman ...

After playing Empire of the Ants, you earn the right to say you’ve felt what it’s like to be an ant. The game is simply that ...