Among many other things, Easter is an opportunity to reflect on Jesus' relationship to political power. Modern readers of the ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Judas Iscariot received 30 silver coins to betray Jesus and put him in the hands of Caiaphas, or in today's money, around ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded the collapse of the Roman Empire ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

As the Roman Empire expanded and became richer, its wealthy citizens demanded increasing amounts of luxury items, especially ...

A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D. The ...

But they’re far from the most valuable out there right now. Hint: It usually helps if a country’s currency is backed by valuable oil reserves and a strict monetary policy. The Euro is the second-most ...

Barbarian warriors who toppled the Roman Empire were high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great conquests, according to researchers. The shocking conclusion has come from Polish ...