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

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

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

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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".

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

He had resolved the civil war; he had restored peace after ... A first-century A.D. Roman would falsely assert that "ancient writers repeatedly speak of Cleopatra's insatiable libido." ...

The lawsuit filed by Ricky Godfrey harkens back to the city’s infamous “Cowboys” scandal, which resulted in controversy, ...