The Illyrians were a powerful network of Balkan tribes who resisted the expanding Romans and were a key force in the Ancient ...

Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, leader, orator—and one of history’s most infamous assassins. Why did he launch a ...

What started as a routine elevator shaft installation in a Barcelona hotel basement has turned into one of the most significant Roman archaeology discoveries in Spain in decades. Excavations beneath ...

Trump and Tiberius Gracchus: Prelude to Internal Reckonings BRANKO RADUN The Roman Empire endured for centuries ...

In the final centuries of the Roman Empire, its survival often depended on the decisions of a few remarkable individuals. Among them was a woman who refused to accept the empire’s decline. At a time ...

The Tomb, a windowless brownstone building at Yale University's "academic tomb", is a building where America's future leaders are shaped. For nearly 200 years, Skull and Bones has inducted an elite ...

For the anniversary of the Boston Massacre, Paul Meany examines how ancient and Enlightenment thinkers ultimately influenced ...

History is riddled with seismic events that mark the end of an era and herald unprecedented change, and the death of Emperor Nero was no different. His demise confirmed the unthinkable: The Roman ...

Debate over the location of a long-lost temple has been rekindled by the discovery of a mysterious inscription at the base of a column in the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Homs, Syria. Known in antiquity ...

In 260 AD, Emperor Valerian was captured by the Persian king Shapur I. It was a shock unlike any other in Roman history. Later writers claimed he was used as a human footstool. Others said he was ...

A recently discovered Greek inscription at the base of a column inside the Great Mosque of Homs in Syria has rekindled a longstanding scholarly debate about the exact location of the Temple of the sun ...