The Druids—a powerful Celtic order wiped out by Rome. Dive into the dark tale of how this spiritual force, rooted in nature, was annihilated in the empire’s relentless expansion.

The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as ...

A bioarchaeological investigation has revealed that the quality of life in the countryside was better than city life in the ...

Archaeologists from the Museum of London have discovered a well-preserved part of the ancient city of London’s first Roman ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

I think of religion the way I think of marriage: a great idea in theory, but in practice, it’s another matter.

But it was the Romans who developed a working model of checks and balances. The constitution of the Roman republic was ...

In this, Alexander preserves Persia’s Zoroastrian religion. Briant says the book went ... of Alexander as the “First European ...

The letter in which Sir Isaac Newton predicted that the world would end in 2060 remains on display at Jerusalem's Hebrew ...

Although initially banned, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. The empire's collapse in Britain created a 'Welsh' people whose identity has traditionally been based on ...

"This papyrus is extraordinary because it provides direct insight into trial preparations in this part of the Roman Empire," says Dr. Dolganov. Dr. Ecker adds, "This is the best-documented Roman ...

In the United States, as in Europe, the advent of national citizenship (as opposed to local citizenship) has mirrored and ...