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

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

The unexpected discovery of Greenland rocks in Iceland hints that a centuries-long cold snap may have helped finish off the Western Roman Empire.

All parts of the Greek and later Roman world were built upon exploiting either their conquered foes or those with the simple misfortune of being born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Despite its ...

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

They were masters of ancient Rome – powerful ... Ptolemy XII was crowned in 76 BC but, soon after, the question of his legitimacy was raised in Rome, where anti-Senate politicians claimed to be in ...

A senior Democrat has broken records with a marathon speech on the Senate floor against US President Donald Trump. Cory Booker, a New Jersey senator, began speaking around 7pm on Monday (just ...

Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis – including one bearing the epitaph of a gladiator. The discovery was announced by the ...

She convinced the Roman emperor Julius Caesar to help put her in power, during which she ruled over Egypt, parts of Libya and regions of the Middle East. What was the religion of ancient Egyptians ...

Now, a farmer is reviving this ancient "superfood". It's a hot and muggy summer day in Sicily's Madonie mountains, a rugged range of ridges about 65km east of Palermo. In a field of ash trees ...

The latest discovery is the only ancient Roman-era mikveh found in Europe. The only other ancient mikveh in Europe is located in Palazzo Bianca in Syracuse, Sicily, which was "probably built near ...