Archaeologists found another example of a crucified heel 49 years later in Cambridgeshire, England, in a grave in an ancient ...

It’s striking to compare the radical departure in Jesus Christ’s message from the kingdom of domination, intimidation and ...

After conquering Egypt, Greek and Macedonian military leaders took power and made Alexandria a center of commerce and ...

Over the past week or so, a disturbing question has migrated from the fringe corners of the internet into the bloodstream of ...

Rome was famous for rejecting the idea of kingship. For almost 500 years, Rome was a staunch Republic, with rules in place to ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

Military life during war or peacetime provides a bounty of interesting stories so it's no surprise that TV shows have ...