The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate is getting under way. An apparent leak of Vatican documents appears ...

The roar of the arena crowd, the bustle of the Roman forum, the grand temples, the Roman army in red with glistening shields ...

Ashwin Sanghi returns with The Ayodhya Alliance, a bold, globe-trotting thriller that fuses mythology, science, and ...

Mangled bones found at a one-time manufacturing facility pinpoint species used to make a quintessential condiment.

Roman salting plants processed fish so thoroughly that researchers struggle to identify the species once used in ancient ...

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

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

George R.R. Martin didn't just create one of TV's biggest franchises; he's also an avid TV viewer, and he's named some truly ...

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, who assembled a suitably heroic cast featuring the likes of Brad Pitt, Peter O’Toole, Brian ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

Since the time of ancient Rome and Greece, people have dealt with love, this difficult emotion, in all its glory and calamity ...

Their enemies portrayed them as barbarians, but their artifacts tell a different story. Between their weapons, jewelry, and ...