While the mayors of the cities did sign a peace treaty in 1985, it was a symbolic gesture. In reality, the wars between the two ancient civilizations ended more than 2,000 years prior when Rome ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

Graffiti, gossip, and the daily gazette: it was easier and harder to get the news in ancient Rome than you might ...

Explore the area surrounding the Colosseum in Rome, Italy. This walking tour captures the structure’s exterior and nearby ...

Last Saturday, I squeezed into St Peter’s in Rome for Mass. Nothing especially surprising there, you might think. But two ...

House of Ashur returns to Ancient Rome and the gladiatorial arena, where blood, sex, and betrayal are aplenty.

The discovery prompted an international search to figure out how the ancient headstone made it to New Orleans.

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

In this reimagined world, where power, passion and destiny unite in an unforgettable new story, viewers are thrust back into ...

THE GOLDEN ROAD: How Ancient India Transformed the World ... the end of the 1st century BCE when Egypt’s Red Sea ports came ...

The world is thirsting for peace and for an end to abuses of power and indifference to the rule of law, Pope Leo XIV said at ...

For 5,000 years, there has been dancing, processions, rituals and feasts. What have we celebrated, from Africa to Asia, ...