Gelasius is also responsible for a popular celebration which is still marked every year - establishing St Valentine's Day on ...

Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Mithridates was a Greco-Persian king, who left his mark in history for his war against the Romans and for developing immunity ...

A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks to bite marks found on a skeleton in a gladiator cemetery. This adds a ...

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

There have been twelve Greek Popes in the history of the papacy, with Saint Peter considered to be the first Catholic leader.

A large necropolis discovered in an ancient oasis provides a missing piece to the archaeological puzzle of the Iron Age, officials said. Screengrab from the United Arab Emirates' Department of Culture ...

Roman generals and emperors offer important lessons about the dangers of authoritarian rule. In an attempt to always appear ...

You don't have to be one of those people who can't go a single day without thinking about the Roman Empire to know about the ...

What we think of as the Roman Empire lasted from 27 BCE to 476 AD. But the end of the Roman Empire is way more complicated ...