As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

Researchers have uncovered a remarkable find with the help of advanced AI that could challenge longstanding beliefs about ...

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

Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire. She tells Jacobin how members of the laboring classes in ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of ...

To modern eyes, much of Pompeii’s erotic art might look like ancient pornography. But to the Romans, these images weren’t ...

A rare Roman military camp discovered deep in the Dutch Veluwe reveals the empire's reach extended far beyond its known ...

With crowds flocking to Disneyland Paris, Matt Dennis and his nephew discover the comic book-themed park that leaves them ...

Digging into the chalky orange-brown soil of western Germany, archaeologists exposed the ruins of an ancient Roman military ...

Before the era of the Romans in southern Italy, the Messapii people crossed the Adriatic Sea and called the Italian peninsula ...

From Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing series to the resurgence of Wicked, fantasy books have all but taken over the best-sellers lists as of late. And if you’re one of the readers who’s been gobbling them ...

Eight days’ hiking lets you imagine the weird and wonderful lives of those who once lived at the Roman Empire’s northern frontier ...