Roman generals and emperors offer important lessons about the dangers of authoritarian rule. In an attempt to always appear strong, or even to be a god, Roman rulers surrounded themselves with weak ...

Focus on the history of the ancient ‘Silk Road’ may have overshadowed the powerful influence of India on the many cultures ...

The animosity between Jews, Persians/Iranians and Muslims has not always been so. In fact, had it not been for the latter, ...

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

Virgil was one of Rome's most prolific poets, but how much was he influenced by ancient Greece and Greek writers like Homer?

As someone who’s studied Ancient Rome for years, I’ve recently been asked which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump. In ...

With the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome entered a period of political upheaval settled only when Caesar's nephew Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, took control of the Empire ... As ...

He began putting his initial creations on social media, and they resonated. Having initially experimented with early 1900s ...

Asterix and Obelix: The Big Fight is streaming from April 30 and is the latest adaptation of the beloved French comic book ...

Eyewitness News anchor Mike Marza has been in Rome since the passing of Pope Francis. He covered the funeral mass at St.

The 1st century CE Roman author Tacitus is one of the most important primary sources that we have for Rome under the ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...