We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of ...

Discover how the Roman Empire’s institutions and culture persisted well into 700 AD, challenging the idea that it simply ...

Christianity from a persecuted sect to the dominant religion of the Roman Empire. It examines key events such as the Edict of Milan in 313 AD, which legalized Christianity, and the Edict of ...

It’s not coincidental that today’s optional memorial follows the Solemnity of Peter and Paul. Sts. Peter and Paul stand at ...

By Peter Edwell for The ConversationStanding in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago.

I remember once asking a great scholar of Rome, Ramsay MacMullen, if he could sum up the history of the Roman Empire in a very limited number of words. His sentence was, “Fewer have more.” ...

Native Roman Ted Lenio recently competed in his sixth Empire State Senior Games and earned medals in every running event offered.

A loaf of bread, divided into eight slices, lies preserved in Pompeii, where it was found inside an earthen oven. Wheat bread ...

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the ...

Yorkshire & Philadelphia: Pen & Sword, 2024. Pp. xxvi, 196. Map, chron., notes, biblio., index. £17.50 / $34.95. ISBN: 139906312X ...

Archeological excavations of Pompeii continue to shed light on the daily lives of ancient Romans.

Cleopatra was not just a famed Greek queen of Ancient Egypt, but she also even created her own secret drinking club.