A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Once on the civil war's front line, the medieval souk, the major Syrian city's former bustling heart, is now largely ...

The death of Pope Francis paves the way for one of the most secretive events in human history, as depicted in the papal ...

Roman museums ... (For ancient tourists as well, a visit here was de rigueur, to see criminals being torn to pieces or crucified in the morning, then, after a break for lunch, men butchering ...

Rome was famous for rejecting the idea of kingship. For almost 500 years, Rome was a staunch Republic, with rules in place to ...

The stone recorded the same message in three different scripts: ancient Greek ... ruler Cleopatra and that he was assassinated in the Roman Senate. But did you know he could have been a model ...

Observation of the Taurus constellation is ancient, with evidence of its veneration ... learned how to butcher meat and refused to wear any clothing not authentic to the 19th century.

By the time of Julius Caesar in the 1st century BC, the official Roman college of augurs consisted of sixteen of these highly regarded men. To the Romans ... unusual methods of divination used by the ...

Dr Martin Warner, the Bishop of Chichester, addressed Christians across West Sussex in a moving Easter Address, given today ...