How often do you think about the Dark Ages? The period may have as much contemporary resonance as Ancient Rome. By Jonn Elledge Last week, when someone told me they were working on a project about the ...

Until relatively recently, the combination of light skin, blue eyes, and blonde hair was something of a rarity among ...

Eiren Caffall, Michael C. Grumley, Mark A. Rayner and Agustina Bazterrica paint bleak pictures in new writings.

When I speak with friends my age, so many of them acknowledge that we are better off cultivating relationships offline—and ...

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.

Sifting through the dark brown soil of southwestern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a “rare” and “visually striking” Roman ...

The old world is dying, and the new one is struggling to be born. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is ...

Pope Francis' recent bout with pneumonia, which landed him in the hospital for the fourth time, fueled speculation in Rome.

In Rome, I was overwhelmed with a rush of boyish enthusiasm. I was setting off across the Mediterranean on a new ship, ...

What we didn’t anticipate was that our new Gilded Age would become even more like its precursor—not only in the seeming ...