When we think of Rome and the Pope, we don't necessarily think of a Greek Pope. However, many Popes in the past had been of ...

When Voltaire said “The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire,” he highlighted a quirk of our psychology: we're rather slow to update our first impressions.

Archaeologists in the Netherlands recently discovered a sizable conversation starter tucked away in a forgotten storage box.

While the current US-Israel war against Iran is different in many ways to ancient wars directed at Persia, the 3rd-century Sasanian rock reliefs are reminders of what can go wrong ...

In theory, putting down the rebels of the First Jewish Revolt should have been easy for the mighty Roman empire. But ...

A study based on tree rings claimed that droughts played a role in events that led to the Roman withdrawal from Britain, but ...

German imperialism was responsible for the first genocide of the 20th century in its Namibian colony. The country’s socialist ...

Former President Barack Obama liked to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s line that “the arc of the moral universe is ...

Don't know your Latin from your Latium? Never heard of a Mamertine before? Fear not — this is Rome's entire history, start to ...