At its widest extent in AD 117, the Roman empire stretched from Iberia to Persia, Britain to Egypt. More impressive is that the concept lasted from the bloody battlefields of Cannae to the era of Paul ...

Objects discovered during the excavation include oil lamps decorated with the menorah (seven-branched lampstand) and the ...

Who is responsible for the birth of Christianity? As with any major phenomenon, the answer is complex. Christianity developed ...

Discover how the fragile foundations of the fiat monetary system risk global economic instability, and why significant ...

The assassination of Julius Caesar was reenacted in Rome at the exact same place where it had taken place 2,000 years ago.

You think you know the world and all its wonders and then one day someone comes along and uncovers a previously unknown ...

I’ve always found the performative use of religious language, as an excoriation or a scold, to be laughably ineffective. To ...

Archaeologists excavating Ostia Antica, the ancient port city of Rome, have unearthed what is now considered the oldest ...

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It holds your hands through the foundation of Rome, with excessive concern dedicated to the Aeneid, to the rise of the ...

But the rules-based order is perhaps best viewed as how Voltaire saw the Holy Roman Empire ... the rules as they applied in China (and to an extent in Russia) allowed state-owned enterprises ...