What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

President Donald Trump has long styled himself as a peacemaker — claiming to have ended eight wars, openly seeking a Nobel Peace Prize and even creating a “Board of Peace” to oversee ...

The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...

The camps, all located in Germany between the northern Harz Mountains and the Elbe River, were dated to the 3rd Century C.E.

Scientists have shed new light on the dirty habits of ancient Rome in Pompeii. By taking a look at limescale in the destroyed ...

In an insane discovery, archaeologists in central Italy have unearthed what may be the only physical building ever designed ...

The so called Byzantine Empire never called itself Byzantine. Long after the fall of Rome in the West its people still believed they were Romans heirs of Caesar and Augustus. This video shows how war ...

People have worshipped god since the beginning of recorded time. Some have been demigods, or half-human, or semi-divine.

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don't just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus Gellius, who lived in the 2nd century CE, gives us a ...