DNA from a Roman salting site in Spain reveals sardines were the key fish used in garum, the famous sauce rooted in Greek and ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

The Roman empire began in 27 B.C.E. when Augustus Caesar declared himself as the first Roman emperor. ... The Eastern Empire ...

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...

The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...

This interpretation of Alexander comes from a Greek living in the Roman Empire that had abolished Greek freedom, conquering Greece in 146 BCE and making it a province of Rome. Plutarch was that voice.

Elon Musk has donated several million dollars to support the study and “appreciation of Greek-Roman culture.” Steve Bannon regularly cites Roman history, in a selective and idiosyncratic way ...

The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert, which sheds new light on a legal drama that unfolded in Israel nearly 2,000 years ago, has now been published for the first time. Over the ...

As the Empire expanded, it took control of new countries that had their own cultures and their own gods. In Egypt, Isis was a goddess of fertility; she was also a mother and a symbol of death and ...

Civil wars within the empire itself provided a stage for Greek fire, especially in the revolt of the thematic fleets in 727 and the great rebellion of Thomas the Slav between 821 and 823. External ...

This course will take place in person at 60 Turner Street. The room will be equipped with a HEPA air purifier. In looking back on the ancient Greek and Roman world we are struck by the sheer quantity ...