When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite city – or so we thought ...

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

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman ...

Jacob Derry, a Pontifical North American College student and seminarian for the Diocese of Lansing, Michigan, helped organize ...

On a riverside in eastern Austria sat a mysterious set of ruins. Some believed it to be an abandoned, run-down castle. Others ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

All parts of the Greek and later Roman world were built upon exploiting either their conquered foes or those with the simple misfortune of being born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Despite its ...

The rise and fall of the publicani of the Roman Empire offers valuable lessons on scalability, adaptability, financial ...

Sculpted in the mid-first century B.C., the last years of the Roman Republic, she was pulled ... here looks anything like it would have in ancient Rome. Most are elisions of ancient marble with ...

The ascendant right wing loves ancient Rome ... emulating the fall of the Roman republic. In the worst, it faces the fall of the Roman Empire. As it was for Rome, so too will it be for America ...

London is a city of layers, where shining skyscrapers are built atop some of the city’s oldest ancient sites. Recent excavations, such as a Roman basilica unearthed in London’s financial ...