With artefacts on loan from the British Museum, this modest show reminds us of the astonishing heritage of a country now ...

By day, she was the emperor’s wife, the most admired woman in Rome, who lived in a palace and wanted for nothing. By night, ...

What did it mean to be an emperor in ancient Rome ... Who should follow Augustus? How should any successor to the Roman throne be chosen, by whom, on what principles, and from what group of ...

Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero’s grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, uncovered a rare and rather big Egyptian ...

Gambling, one of the most common vices in the world, has a long history that dates all the way back to Ancient Greece.

Archaeologists have uncovered 2000-year-old gold and silver coins in Netherlands, marking the largest Roman-era discovery in ...

Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero's grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, have unearthed an extremely rare and ...

Non-Western intellectuals and strategists have often wrongly equated domestic dysfunction and division in US democracy with ...

When the sun hits the Roman columns of Évora and warms the stone circles of Almendres, Portugal learns its most ancient secrets. Who would have thought it? This land, shaped by the peoples of the ...

In 1631, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I commissioned the Taj Mahal to house the tomb of his favorite wife. With its symmetrical ...

And every movie version has her dressed in fanciful, ancient Egyptian costumes ... the last of the western emperors, Romulus Augustus (named ironically after Rome’s founder and spoken of contemp ...