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

A poisonous drug that can be used medicinally or to cause visual hallucinations, black henbane seeds have been documented at ...

A Roman bone found alongside 1,000 black henbane hallucinogenic seeds reveals medical and ritual practices in ancient Roman ...

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 ...

There is a long history of prescribing exercise as medicine. Recent research suggests that exercise in any form, even at mild ...

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

Discover ancient diets for glowing skin, from Egyptian almonds to Aztec chia seeds. Beauty secrets that outperform today's ...

Pope Francis’ doctor has recounted the pope's last moments in Italian newspaper interviews. Dr. Sergio Alfieri said the pope ...

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell was seen sealing the door to ...

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

"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, ...

Roman troops stationed at Hadrian's Wall on the empire's northern frontier rebelled and three different "barbarian" groups ...