The President is at the center of a brazenly transactional ecosystem that rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty.

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Today, AD joins architect Nick Potts in London to uncover the city’s ancient Roman origins. Before London, there was Londinium, the capital of Roman Britain, and although it was abandoned by AD ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

Pax Augusta is a highly detailed and highly ambitious city-builder from solo developer Roger Gassman. You take control of a ...

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

The idea of a Roman gladiator taking on a lion might sound like something from the recent blockbuster, Gladiator II. But it was a reality for one brave fighter 1,800 years ago - and we're not ...

For reasons having more to do with modern secular culture and commerce than religious significance, Christmas is more elaborately celebrated. But for believing Christians, Easter is the ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

Filippo Monteforte/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Supported by By Franz Lidz Imagine mounting a scaffold in the atrium of a historic Roman estate. You spy a small trap door in the vaulted ...

The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus (lived circa 330 to 395) claimed in his book "Res Gestae" (Latin for "things done" or "things that happened") that the three groups conspi ...

Extreme Drought Contributed to Barbarian Invasion of Late Roman Britain, Tree-Ring Study Reveals Apr. 17, 2025 — Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a ...