One of the world’s oldest cookbooks, De Re Coquinaria, contains recipes for familiar staples, along with more exotic fare.

Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star in John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / ...

The modern state, unlike the medieval monarchy, does not merely tax to sustain itself or to defend the nation. It taxes to ...

HABEMUS papam, folks! Yes, in layman’s terms, we have a new pope. And with the pontification of Pope Leo XIV comes the reminder that Latin is a very useful language indeed. After all, not only did ...

The cardinals selecting the next pope will take their meals at a Vatican guesthouse. One conclave veteran said the fare was ...

It was a fitting sight for an extraordinary week in which Rome seemed to regain its reputation as the "capital of the world" – and St Peter's Square as the centre of the Catholic universe.

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 gladiators who played a central role in the bread and circus that helped it ...

ROME, N.Y. -- A traffic stop resulted in the arrest of a 32-year-old woman from Rome. On April 23, shortly after noon, a unit from the Rome Police Department initiated the stop in the 100 block of E.

The ancient Roman poet Juvenal called it panem et circenses, or “bread and circuses” – a strategy of appeasing the public with necessities and entertainment to distract them from the real ...

A circus manager says his defeat in a ‘David and Goliath’ style battle with a Hollywood film company has robbed him of his heritage. Kenny Darnell Jnr, 37, found himself fighting 20th Century ...