During the next century, Christians perished in China completely. With the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, China once again ...

In each of these chapters the role of the city of Rome as the metropolis of a vast empire will be a crucial factor in understanding the history of Roman religion. In this chapter we shall show how the ...

This book fundamentally rewrites the cultural and religious history of North Africa under the Roman Empire, focalized through rituals related to child sacrifice and the carved-stone monuments ...

An Israeli plays Mary in an upcoming Netflix Jesus movie. Activists say she should be Palestinian — but the arguments all ...

Pompeii’s unique preservation of the tragic tableaux of its citizens’ final moments has provided archaeologists with a way to ...

The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius once said, “be like the cliffs against which the waves break and break.” Here are the stories of eight nations who stood like cliffs against the might of Rome ...

Scientists have reportedly discovered several Roman buildings and the ruins of a forum in Spain that likely helped integrate local communities into the ancient empire. A team of students ...

The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii ...

After playing the new city-builder game Citadelum for just over four hours, I can definitively say that it’s right for a specific kind of person: those who are obsessed with the Roman Empire.

Whatever you think of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, come January, the next four years promise to be critical in ...

UNESCO told Newsweek it "is gravely concerned about the threats posed by the conflict to the region's rich cultural heritage." ...