The attempt of the Pythagoreans to reshape society in Croton, Magna Graecia, through politics led to public backlash and ...

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

Duquesne University students spending the summer in Rome have a front row seat to history as the world mourns the death of Pope Francis.

But for Dallas-area students in Rome right now, being witnesses to history has enriched that experience even more. Students ...

The Founders had disagreements about the role of religion in America’s public schools, but there was always one line they would not cross.

When it comes to open-world exploration, few franchises do it better than Assassin's Creed. Over the years, the series has ...

The Rome Prize, which has been awarded by the American Academy in Rome for 130 years, aims to support “innovative and ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Rome Prize winners. Rome Prize architecture winners are: Akima Brackeen of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Cory ...

In this three-hour Ancient Rome tour, we will look closely at this period and how, under the influence of the first emperors, Rome rapidly developed into one of the greatest capitals of the ancient ...

A new analysis of classical medical texts suggests dementia was extremely rare in ancient Greece and Rome 2,000 to 2,500 ...