North Africa once produced Catholic popes who shaped Church traditions, including Easter Sunday and St Valentine’s Day. Will ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth century, and with a history surrounded in myth, legend and controversy, it ...

Much of what we know about individual Roman emperors comes from what they chose to build. In the 1st century CE, Nero was ...

Virgil was one of Rome's most prolific poets, but how much was he influenced by ancient Greece and Greek writers like Homer?

Venice is a city whose history conjures up many images, memories and feelings—but how many of us think of Greece when we talk ...

Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in arena battles, but no definitive evidence has been found ...

Hadrian’s Wall — a 73-mile construction across northern Britain that marked the frontier of the Roman Empire — is no stranger to penis imagery. The nearly 2,000-year-old example of Roman engineering ...

With the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome entered a period of political upheaval settled only when Caesar's nephew Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, took control of the Empire ... As ...