The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

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

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Had enough of the crowds? Once you’ve seen Rome, consider a day trip to these lesser known but no less beautiful towns for ...

Had enough of the crowds? Once you’ve seen Rome, consider a day trip to these lesser known but no less beautiful towns for ...

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

The Mongol Empire was led by Genghis Khan, a conqueror who united the Mongolian tribes across Asia. Khan established a large, disciplined military infamous for its brutal and violent attacks as the ...

Francis inherited a deeply divided Church after the resignation in 2013 of his predecessor, Benedict XVI. The ...

To purposefully ride the rollercoaster alongside the disciples and Jesus—the mixture of vomit and death and life, blood and sweat and tears. Holy Week began last week with Palm Sunday at the start of ...

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

How can these discoveries be reconciled with the widespread view that the post-Temple remnant of Jews in the Holy Land was ...

She made the discovery after immersing herself in the works of Roman writers like Cicero and inscriptions on ancient Greek temples. In Delos, Greece, temple inscriptions show that some statues ...