Over 2,200 years ago, the Republic of Rome founded a colony called Liternum on Italy’s west coast, just north of present-day ...

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

Ancient manuscripts detailing the events during the Roman Empire are believed to contain ... For he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.' ...

When Julius Caesar wrote a series of histories about the Gallic Wars around 53 B.C.E., he mentioned a fascinating group of ...

The philosopher, known for his great speeches on renunciation and clemency, is himself one of the richest men in ancient Rome. But when one day the student tires of his teacher, Nero orders Seneca ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over ... for instance by featuring men with finely sculpted torsos. The wide-ranging colors used in ancient Greek ...

As a scholar of ancient Greek and a university professor ... sculpture that is based on the Greek tradition” as the way for Roman imperial athletes to get in top shape, to excel in competition ...

We have little more than Roman propaganda writings as proof that the ancient Celts did indeed kill their fellow men as offerings for the gods. It is one of the thousands of ancient mysteries that ...

The letters that were dug up here were written by ordinary soldiers, men who were ... to the ancient Romans that they made it a province of their great empire. Women in Roman Britain.

Christians see gift giving as a symbolic homage to the Three Wise Men's tributes to the baby ... with a joyful "Io Saturnalia!" — the ancient Roman equivalent of "Merry Christmas!" ...