Italy’s geopolitical ascendancy is prefigured around developing closer hydrocarbon ties to Libya via energy giant ENI.

If you've ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

What did race and identity mean to the Romans? In this episode of Kings and Generals, we examine ancient views on ethnicity, ...

The pope’s portrait is everywhere these days. Here, we found it in a store of liturgical paraphernalia in central Rome. There were also many other symbols around, as a testament to how religion and ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

HarperCollins, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-00-870042-3 More than any other ancient civilization, the Roman Empire continues to inform modern understandings of government, according to this ardent ...

How can religions work together to promote social cohesion and climate justice? That’s the question at the centre of a meeting at Rome’s Pontifical Antonianum University, taking place from the 8th to ...

The Plague of Justinian, which affected the Eastern Roman Empire in the 540s, may also have been caused in part by a colder climate. Christopher Spencer at Queen’s University in Kingston ...

Analysts have expressed shock and worry, warning the move could lead to inflation and possibly even recession for the U.S. As someone who’s spent years researching the economy of Ancient Rome, it all ...

In ancient Rome, gladiators took part in one of the most bloodthirsty spectacles known to history. Depicted in Ridley Scott's epic films, the armed combatants engaged in violent public battles ...