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Now predominantly Muslim, North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic popes who left their mark on the ...

Roman generals and emperors offer important lessons about the dangers of authoritarian rule. In an attempt to always appear ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks to bite marks found on a skeleton in a gladiator cemetery. This adds a ...

A conservative Catholic revival has been brewing for decades in the US in response to liberalising reforms to the Church in ...

At the northern end of the Black Sea, Crimea sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, having been at various times in its ...

Predict who the next pope will be at your peril. An old Italian saying warns against putting faith, or money, in any presumed ...

and how successive rulers down to the Fascists of the 20th century drew on the narrative of Julius and Augustus Caesar to validate their own rule. We'll emerge with a new sense of Rome and its ...

As someone who’s studied Ancient Rome for years, I’ve recently been asked which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump. In ...

After an earthquake damaged the building, construction crews started working in the basement and unearthed the forgotten Roman ruins. Take a look.

“It also raises important questions about the importance and transport of exotic animals across the Roman Empire.” The find ...