A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

The Statue of Liberty is an icon of our political freedom. The Cross is an icon of our spiritual freedom. The Statue of ...

Twelve years after the original Spartacus series signed off in a blaze of rebellion and carnage, Spartacus is officially back ...

Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

Life as a Roman slave was harsh and dehumanizing but also full of strange contradictions, unexpected privileges, and unusual roles. This video explores the lesser-known and bizarre aspects of slavery ...

Mangled bones found at a one-time manufacturing facility pinpoint species used to make a quintessential condiment.

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of ...

Starz has unveiled the first images for the spinoff series of Spartacus, while showrunner Steven S. DeKnight explains new ...

Gabriel Zuchtriegel’s spirited part-history, part-memoir evokes the everyday life of the ancient city, and poses some very ...

The director’s most recent film, “The Phoenician Scheme.” very explicitly affirms faith. This is all the more surprising ...

In Rome, there survives a sculpture which marks the grave of ... In this video, we examine the ancient Greek slave classes and their role in maintaining the economy. We evaluate how they were ...

When reflecting on the ancient world, historians often break societies down into groups of people such as citizens, slaves, nobility or soldiers ... but destroyed during the Roman conquests of Greece.