The Illyrians were a powerful network of Balkan tribes who resisted the expanding Romans and were a key force in the Ancient ...

I am a pretty hopeless churchgoer but whenever I have attended a service in our village I have found myself talking to a nice old boy who has always gone out of his way to make me feel welcome.

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Roman city on Israel's coast, which appears to be the grand port built by a king described in the Bible. The city of Caesarea Maritima, just 28 miles north of ...

One of the best historical sites to visit on the island, Villa Jovis is an archeological ruin from the Roman period. It was built by the Roman emperor Tiberius, who commissioned 12 villas on Capri in ...

Power can move armies, yet private fear still marks history, bending routines, public image, and the stories leaders leave behind.

An actual historical figure who appears in "Gladiator" is Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, whose real-life reign had some major ...

There’s something kind of magical about looking at stuff from the past; it’s like a tiny peek into how people lived, worked, ...

The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, leader, orator—and one of history’s most infamous assassins. Why did he launch a conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar?