The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

VE Day will be honoured and remembered with dedicated programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio and Sounds marking the 80th ...

Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was said to be a fan ... year when the Belfast Telegraph headlined a front-page feature about his research team: QUEEN ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite ...

Archaeologists launch a project to analyze 4,000 Roman bricks from Trier, Germany, revealing insights into ancient building ...

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

The Speed Project’ is unsanctioned, dangerous and not exactly legal. But for the runners who land a coveted invite, it’s ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered a halt to construction on Equinor's Empire Wind project off the coast of New York, saying information suggested the Biden administration approved it ...

How often do you think about the Roman Empire? Remember ... the founder of Patriot Front, one of the most active white supremacist groups in the country. Shields isn’t as extreme as some ...

The Grotto of Diana at the Villa D'Este outside of Rome will open to visitors in May after being closed for 40 years.

Tassan was showing me a milliaire, or milestone, one of hundreds planted along the highways of Gaul at the time of the Roman Empire ... To research the project, he set off on a 900-mile journey ...