Sifting through the damp soil of the southwestern United Kingdom, archaeologists slowly unearthed an ancient Roman settlement. The ruins seemed “typical” at first — but then “something more unusual” ...

Hadrian’s Wall — a 73-mile construction across northern Britain that marked the frontier of the Roman Empire — is no stranger to penis imagery. The nearly 2,000-year-old example of Roman engineering ...

Christopher Columbus is given royal commission by Spanish monarchs Isabella I and Ferdinand II to equip his fleet to ...

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The groundbreaking study led by a professor at Maynooth University in Ireland found physical evidence of "Roman gladiatorial ...

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Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...

Thousands of people poured into St. Peter's Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, whose body is lying in ...

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 ...

There are no overt religious references in Superman comics. But over eight decades, he’s been viewed as a divine entity, a ...

In it, Andrade, a scholar of the Greco-Roman world, argues that the authors of the Gospels rewrote history to let the Romans off the hook, and shifted the blame for their messiah’s execution to ...

The analysis, based on the growth rings of oaks from southern Britain, made it possible to reconstruct temperature and precipitation levels at the time and connect them to Roman accounts of food ...