Throughout history, Christians have often believed Pontius Pilate was reluctant to condemn Jesus. History suggests otherwise, ...

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

How can these discoveries be reconciled with the widespread view that the post-Temple remnant of Jews in the Holy Land was ...

A 76-year-old metal detectorist uncovers a rare Roman coin after years of searching. The unexpected find is more than just a historical artifact. The coin’s sale reveals an interesting twist that adds ...

COMMENTARY: The Council of Nicaea gave Christianity more than a creed — it gave the Church a way to calculate Easter. But ...

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...

Hurston wasn’t drowning in the pelagic waters of tragedy; instead, she was refining the stories that ethnic groups had ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D. The ...

Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube River, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost 2,000 years ago ...

Relying on leeks, potatoes, and a Pompeiian baking technique, Irina Georgescu finds culinary inspiration east of the Danube ...

Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the ...