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

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

The ascendant right wing loves ancient Rome. Its adherents love its glories ... Sulla justified his decade of civil war and internecine bloodshed with the claim that he was fixing a dissipated ...

It is unlikely that armies have fared any better throughout history without proper sanitation and waste management. Consider, ...

The 1st century CE Roman author Tacitus is one of the most important primary sources that we have for Rome under the ...

VATICAN CITY — As pilgrims and world leaders alike prepare to say goodbye to Pope Francis at his funeral Saturday, Rome is racing to ... the head of Italy’s civil protection service.

Discover the history of Shurtleff College, its Civil War ties, and how it celebrated Easter, as detailed in a 1938 student ...

The coin is thought to be the only one of its kind to be found in Britain A Roman coin that is believed ... just eight months during a period of civil war known as the "Year of the Four Emperors".

Historians say it is possible that George Laurens is among the 20 people buried in unmarked Mepkin graves that abut the small ...

Elected in March 2013 as an outsider who could reform the Roman Curia, meaning the central government of the Church, but who ...