Ancient Rome

What remembering Rome can teach us about men, women, history, and the present.

By Lacey Pfalz From TravelPulse Four temples in the heart of Rome, including the site where Roman emperor ...

Commentary The idiom “there is nothing new under the sun” comes from Ecclesiastes 1:9. That has proven to ...

Sitting on the top row of the ancient arena, I scan the ruins of Ostia, letting my imagination ...

By Lesley Sauls Frederikson The quintessential symbol of Rome is the Colosseum. Think of Audrey Hepburn and Gregory ...

Ignorance may be bliss, but it can also be downright embarrassing. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump met ...

Helen Valentine, a senior curator at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, shares how and why the ...

Helen Valentine, senior curator at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, shares her short talk on the ...

A hiker exploring in the eastern Galilee area of Israel found a rare 2,000-year-old gold coin.

The ancient Babylonians were the first to use sophisticated geometry – a staggering 1,400 years before it was ...

What appears to be an ancient Roman sword has been found off the East Coast of Canada, and ...

To tell Rome's story in a way that is timely and comprehensible, one would need a guide like ...

Exhibition at the Canadian War Museum showcases a day in the life of a gladiator.

Mystery surrounds the most famous pair of lovers in ancient history.

An archaeologist working with a brewery is recreating ancient beers from around the world, from places such as ...

People in ancient times had more advanced levels of scientific understanding than we commonly give them credit for.

The mysterious metal spoken of in ancient Greece, said to glimmer with a reddish light in Atlantis, may ...

Using x-rays, scientists have been able to look inside thousand-year-old scrolls from an ancient Roman library and could ...

A New Year's resolution is a tradition, most common in the West but found around the world, in ...

Slightly over-indulged in wine this festive season? Suffering from throbbing headache, dry mouth, and nausea after the office ...

One of the earliest references to the use of chemical weapons in Western literature can be found in ...

Along the shores of Israel's Mediterranean coast, in the ancient seaport of Ashkelon, archaeologist Ross Voss made a ...

We've lost the secret to making some of history's most useful inventions, and for all of our ingenuity ...

Imagine you’re in an ancient temple, dimly lit by rays of sunlight peaking in. A worshipper lights a ...

The living do not always intend to remember the dead, and at times have even made an effort ...

About the size of a modern laptop, this ancient computer could calculate astronomical changes with great precision. New ...

A new study has revealed evidence that gladiators drank a beverage made from plant ash, vinegar, and water.